Medical Necessity?
Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making, by Daniel Skinner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)….
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Review Essay: The Politics of Global Health
In 1968, Monsignor Ivan Illich delivered a memorable speech, titled “To Hell With Good Intentions,” challenging American volunteers to Latin…
Review Essay: On Knowing Addiction
On Knowing Addiction In June 2018, artists placed a 700-pound sculpture of a massive spoon used for cooking heroin outside…
Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era
What do human rights mean in an era when corporations enjoy rights as people? As U.S. courts grant a widening…
Review Essay: Regimes of Expertise and the Law
As the internal workings of the state—and not just the state’s effects on others—become ever more central to anthropological inquiry…