Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity

Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity. Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford, eds. Santa Fe: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series, 2005. 322 pp.     

Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field

Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field. Linda M. Whiteford and Lenore Manderson. eds. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. 331pp.     

Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field

Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field. Linda M. Whiteford and Lenore Manderson. eds. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. vi. 333 pp.     

Book Reviews

Reich, W. T. (ed), Encyclopedia of Bioethics Brody, Baruch, Ethical Issues in Drug Testing, Appraisal and Pricing: The Clot-dissolving Drugs Purdy, M. Purdy, Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics Battin, Margaret P. and Lipman, Arthur G., (eds), Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Rainey, R. Randall and Magill, Gerard, (eds), Abortion and Public Policy: An Interdisciplinary Investigation Within the Catholic Church Cohen, Cynthia B. (ed), New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation Boyle, Philip and Callahan, Daniel, (eds), What Price Mental Health?     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Elizabeth A. Povinelli. The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action. J. Finlayson and D.E. Smith (eds). Native Title: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy
Robert F. Weir, Stored Tissue Samples. Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Implications
Glenn McGee, The Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach To Genetics
Sarah Franklin and Helena Ragoné, (eds) Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation
David C. Thomasma, Thomasine Kimbrough-Kushner, Gerrit K. Kimsma and Chris Ciesielski-Carlucci, (eds), Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia
Mark J Hanson and Daniel Callahan, (eds) The Goals Of Medicine: The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform
Erik Parens, (ed), Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Restoration of Endangered Species. Conceptual Issues, Planning and Implementation. eds M. L. Bowles and R. J. Whelan
Biodiversity and Global Change, eds O. T. Solbrig, H. M. van Emden and P. G. W.J. van Oordt.     

Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates

Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates . Pamela J. Stewartand Andrew Strathern, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. 146 pp.     

Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research

Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research. G. A. Clark and C. M. Willermet. eds. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De Gruyter, 1997.508 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Alan Barnard (ed.) Hunter‐Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology Jeremy Beckett. A Study of Aborigines in the Pastoral West of New South Wales: 1958 MA Thesis with New Introduction and Preface Roy Ellen. On the Edge of the Banda Zone. Past and Present in the Social Organization of a Moluccan Trading Network Thomas Gibson. And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority among the Makassar Michael Goddard. The Unseen City: Anthropological Perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock (eds). Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation Bruce Rigsby and Nicolas Peterson (eds). Donald Thomson: The Man and Scholar Joel Robbins. Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society Rowena Robinson. Christians of India. New Delhi: Sage Publications Gerald Sider. Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina Monique Skidmore. Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear Jenny B. White. Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey Katharine L. Wiegele. Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines     

Style and Function; Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology.

Style and Function; Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology. Teresa D. Hurt and Gordon F. M. Rakita. eds. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 240 pp.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Jennifer Jackson, Truth, Trust and Medicine
Anne Hudson Jones and Faith McLellan (eds.), Ethical Issues in Biomedical Publications
Carl Elliott (ed.), Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Robert M. Veatch, Transplantation Ethics
Barry Hoffmaster (ed.), Bioethics in Social Context
Michael W. Fox, Bringing Life to Ethics: Global Bioethics for a Humane Society     

Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion; Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories

Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion. Morton Klass and Maxine K. Weisgrau. eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 416 pp.
Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories. Graham Cunningham. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 126 pp.     

Arab and Muslim America: Emergent Scholarship, New Visibility, Conspicuous Gap in Academe

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock. eds. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 629 pp.
Family and Gender among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants. Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge. eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 19961996. 327 pp.
Arabs in America: Building. New Future. Michael W. Suleiman. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 355 pp.
Without Forgetting the Imam. Linda S. Walbridge. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. 242 pp.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Emmanuel Agius and Salvino Busuttil, (eds), Germ-Line Intervention and our Responsibilities to Future Generations Andrew Edgar, Sam Salek, Darren Shickle and David Cohen, The Ethical QALY: Ethical Issues in Healthcare Resource Allocations John McKie, Jeff Richardson, Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse, The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the ‘QALY’ Approach Gregory E. Pence, Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning? Maxwell J. Mehlman and Jeffrey R. Botkin, (eds), Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality Udo Schüklenk, Access to Experimental Drugs in Terminal Illness Philip J. Boyle, (ed), Getting Doctors to Listen: Ethics and Outcome Data in Context Ellie Lee, (ed), Abortion Law and Politics Today     

Book reviews

Andrea de Guttry and Natalino Ronzitti, eds. The Iran‐Iraq War (1980–1988) and the Law of Naval Warfare. 1993. Cambridge, England: Grotius Publications. 573 pp. ISBN 1–857010–13–2. (Available from Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, and New York, NY, ISBN 0–521–463025, $190)

David L. Larson. Security Issues and the Law of the Sea. 1993. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 382 pp. ISBN 0–8191–9089–6. $47.50     

Besprechungen/Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Chiarelli , A. B., und R. S. Corruccini, eds. (1981): Primate evolutionary biology (Evolutionsbiologie der Primaten). Herbinet , E., and M. C. Busnel, eds. (1981): L'aube des sens (The dawn of senses/Erwachen der Sinne). Barlow , H. B., und J. D. Mollon, eds. (1982): The senses (Die Sinne). Steiner , J. E., und J. R. Ganchrow, eds. (1982): Determination of behaviour by chemical stimuli (Steuerung von Verhalten durch chemische Reize). Stein , J. F. (1982): An introduction to neurophysiology (Einführung in die Neurophysiologie). Obrist , P. A. (1981): Cardiovascular psychophysiology — A perspective (Kreislaufphysiologie und Verhalten). Fagen , R. (1981): Animal play behavior (Spielverhalten von Tieren).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Francoise Dussart . The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge. Han‐Dieter Evers and Rudiger Korff . Southeast Asian Urbanism: The Meaning and Power of Social Space. Susan Greenwood . Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology. IWGIA . The Indigenous World 1999–2000. Christian Emi (ed.) A. Margaret McArthur . The Curbing of Anarchy in Kunimaipa Society. Edited by Douglas Oliver John McCreery . Japanese Consumer Behaviour: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. Diane M. Nelson . A Finger In The Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B . Eicher (eds). Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture and Meaning. John W. Traphagan . Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Glen Banks and Chris Ballard (eds) . The Ok Tedi Settlement: Issues, Outcomes and Implications. Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy (eds) . Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Johanna M. Blows . Eagle and Crow: An Exploration of an Australian Aboriginal Myth. Malcolm Crick , Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices: Sri Lankans and International Tourism. Gary W. Dowsett , Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS. Juliana Flinn, Leslie Marshall and Jocelyn Armstrong (eds) . Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research. James Fox (ed.) The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Hamilton, Malcolm B . The Sociology of Religion - Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. Andro Iteanu and Eric Schwimmer (eds) . Pane, etje t'ecouterai: Recits et traditions des Orokaiva de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee James Jemut Masing . The Coming of the Gods: An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the Baleh River Region, Sarawak. Monica Lindh De Montoya . Progress, Hunger and Envy: Commercial Agriculture, Marteting and Social Transformation in the Venezuelan Andes. R.G. Parker and J.H. Gagnon (eds) . Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World R. Parkin . The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Hertz and its Legacy. Raul Pertierra . Explorations in Social Theory and Philippine Ethnography. Carmel Schrire . Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist. William Scott Shelley . The Elixir: An Alchemical Study of the Ergot Mushroom. Andrew Shyrock . Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Nicholas Thomas . Oceanic Art. Elspeth Young . Third World in The First.     

A Tide in the Affairs of Women

Women, Wives, Mothers: Values and Options. Jessie Bernard . Chicago: Aldine, 1975. viii + 286 pp. $5.95 (paper).
The Women's Movement: Political, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Issues. Barbara Sinclair Deckard . New York: Harper and Row, 1975. xii + 450 pp. $6.95 (paper).
Sex and the Intelligent Woman. Manfred F. DeMartino . New York: Springer, 1974. xii + 308 pp. $8.95 (cloth).
Women and Men: An Anthropologist's View. Ernestine Friedl . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. xi + 148 pp. n.p. (paper).
Naked Nomads. George Gilder . New York: Quadrangle-New York Times, 1974. 180 pp. $7.95 (cloth).
Sex Roles in Law and Society: Cases and Materials. Leo Kanowitz . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974 (First published 1973, reprinted). xiv + 706 pp. $20.00 (cloth), $8.50 (paper).
Women and the Law: The Unfinished Revolution. Leo Kanowitz . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975 (First published 1969, reprinted). xviii + 312 pp. $3.95 (paper).
Female of the Species. Kay Martin and Barbara Voorhies . New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. xi + 432 pp. n.p. (paper).
The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages. Papers of the 6th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, May 1972. Rosemarie Thee Morewedge , ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975. xv + 195 pp. $12.50 (cloth).
Men and Masculinity. Joseph H. Pleck and Jack Sawyer , eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1974. viii + 184 pp. $6.95 (cloth).
Women and Social Policy. Constantino Safilios-Rothschild . Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1974. ix + 197 pp. $6.95 (cloth), $3.50 (paper).
Women in Chinese Society. Margery Wolf and Roxane Witke , eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975. x + 315 pp. $12.50 (cloth).