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Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an anthropologist and historian of science and medicine in the United States. He is author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine & Modern American Life (UMN Press, 2012), Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology (UMN Press, 2019), and Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (UMN Press, 2020). He blogs at matthewwolfmeyer.com and somatosphere.net. View all posts by Matthew Wolf-Meyer →

Book Reviews

Review Essay: The Politics of Global Health

January 8, 2019·0 comments

In 1968, Monsignor Ivan Illich delivered a memorable speech, titled “To Hell With Good Intentions,” challenging American volunteers to Latin…

Book Reviews

Book Review: Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River

January 7, 2019·0 comments

In Navigating Austerity, Laura Bear applies an ethnographic approach to understand how social relations and ethics are impacted by the…

Book Reviews

Review Essay: On Knowing Addiction

August 13, 2018·0 comments

On Knowing Addiction In June 2018, artists placed a 700-pound sculpture of a massive spoon used for cooking heroin outside…

Book Reviews

Review Essay: Law and Migrant Labor in the 20th Century: Ghost Workers and Global Capitalism

July 30, 2018·0 comments

Large-scale movements of workers, production lines, commodities, and centers of power have been integral to capitalist development since its earliest…