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Jenny Reardon, “The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Knowledge and Justice after the Genome” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Jenny Reardon
The Postgenomic Condition
Ethics, Knowledge and Justice after the Genome
University of Chicago Press, 2017

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Medicine New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network April 20, 2018 Chad J. Valasek

How do we create meaning after the genome? Such a profound question is at the center of the recently published book by Jenny Reardon, The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Knowledge and Justice after the Genome (University of Chicago Press, 2017).… Read More

Alexandra Cox, “Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People” (Rutgers UP, 2018)

Alexandra Cox
Trapped in a Vice
The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
Rutgers University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Sociology New Books Network April 16, 2018 Sarah E. Patterson

How does the juvenile justice system impact the lives of the young people that go through it? In her new book, Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People (Rutgers University Press, 2018), Alexandra Cox uses interviews… Read More

Japonica Brown-Saracino, “How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Japonica Brown-Saracino
How Places Make Us
Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities
University of Chicago Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network April 10, 2018 Richard E. Ocejo

Many of us move to a new place at some point in our lives for a variety of reasons: for a job, to be with a partner, to attend school, for a change of scenery, to retire. When we have… Read More

Debarati Sen
Everyday Sustainability
Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling
SUNY Press, 2017

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In her new book, Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling (SUNY Press, 2017), Debarati Sen analyzes the paradoxes and promises of Fair Trade-organic tea production in Darjeeling, India. Based on more than a decade of feminist… Read More

Mara Buchbinder, “All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain” (U California Press, 2015)

Mara Buchbinder
All in Your Head
Making Sense of Pediatric Pain
University of California Press, 2015

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Medicine New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Sociology New Books Network April 4, 2018 Dana Greenfield

As physicians, we cannot image or measure it, we can only try to locate within the lives and (sometimes) bodies of our patients. In All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain (University of California Press, 2015), an ethnography… Read More