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Sarah Richardson, The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects, University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Review by Quill R Kukla (Georgetown University and Leibniz Universität Hannover). I had been eagerly anticipating the release of Sarah Richardson’s meticulously researched…

June 25, 2023

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Françoise Baylis, Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing, Harvard University Press, 2019               

 Carolyn P. NeuhausThe Hastings CenterGarrison, NY What kind of world do we want to live in? It’s rare that we ask this question of ourselves, and even rarer that we get to do…

August 27, 2022

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Firmin DeBrabander, Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society, Cambridge University Press, 2020 

Dan Steinberg, Washington, DC                   In “Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society,” Firmin DeBrabander proposes that…

August 27, 2022

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Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon, HarperCollins, 2019

                  Adam Omelianchuk, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Joshua Mezrich is a practicing transplant surgeon who draws on his experiences, and…

August 27, 2022

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Jeremy Snyder, Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us—and Makes Us Vulnerable, Oxford, 2020 

 Marleen EijkholtLeiden University Medical CenterLeiden, Netherlands Snyder’s book ‘Exploiting hope’ is as relevant as ever. His book is about the hope of desperate…

September 24, 2021

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Maneesha Deckha, Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders, University of Toronto Press, 2021    

Angela FernandezUniversity of TorontoToronto, ON           Animals as Legal Beings is a new and important monograph-length treatment on the inadequacies of both a…

September 24, 2021

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Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, NYU Press, 2020 

Catharine Saint-CroixUniversity of MinnesotaTwin Cities      THE STRAIGHTS ARE NOT OKAY. The tragedy of heterosexuality is this: modern straightness dooms once-hopeful,…

September 24, 2021

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Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, 2020 

 Audrey YapUniversity of VictoriaVictoria, B.C. Entitled is in several ways a sequel to Kate Manne’s Down Girl (2018) and provides us with applications and…

May 8, 2021

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Imani Perry, Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation, Duke University Press, 2018.

       Ayanna De’Vante Spencer Revolution begins with the self, in the self…It may be lonely. Certainly painful. It’ll take time. We’ve got time. That of course is…

July 6, 2020

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Danielle Spencer, Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity, Oxford University Press, 2020

Dana Howard, The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH Danielle Spencer’s book, “Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity,” does many things. It is a work of…

August 27, 2018