Book Reviews

Book reviews are typically solicited; however, we strongly encourage authors to submit their books to the Book Review Editor for consideration for review. We also invite proposals for review essays that survey several texts in a particular field.

Submit your book for review, or contact the Book Review Editor with queries:

Katy Fulfer
Women’s Studies Program and Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
Hood College
401 Rosemont Avenue
Frederick, Maryland
21701
fulfer@hood.edu

IJFAB BOOK REVIEWS

Issue 1.1
Iris M. Young, On female body experience: "Throwing like a girl" and other essays
(Oxford University Press, 2005)
Ariella Binik

Nie Jing-Bao, Behind the silence: Chinese voices on abortion
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
Xianduan Shi and Margaret Battin

Carl Elliot, Better than well: American medicine meets the American dream
(W.W. Norton, 2003)
Angela Thachuk

Issue 1.2
Steven Epstein, Inclusion: The politics of difference in medical research
(University of Chicago Press, 2007)
Richard E. Ashcroft

Mary Briody Mahowald, Bioethics and women across the life span
(Oxford University Press, 2006)
Véronique Bergeron

La construcción de la bioética, edited by
Ruy Perez Tamayo, Rubén Lisker, and Ricardo Tapia
(Fondo de Cultura Econ—mica, 2007)
Arleen L. F. Salles

Theorizing feminisms: A reader, edited by
Elizabeth Hackett and Sally Haslanger
(Oxford University Press, 2006)
Diana Buccafurni

Issue 2.1
Robert H. Blank and Janna C. Merrick (eds.), End-of-life decision making: A cross-national study
(MIT Press, 2005)
Katherine Wayne

Virginia Held, The ethics of care: Personal, political, and global
(Oxford University Press, 2006)
Mary Mahowald

Alice Domurat Dreger, One of us: Conjoined twins and the future of normal
(Harvard University Press, 2004)
Shelley Tremain

Issue 3.1
Margaret Wiley (Ed.) Women, wellness, and the media
(Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)
Chris La Barbera and Melissa Meade

Issue 3.2
Lisa A. Eckenwiler and Felicia C. Cohn (Eds.) The ethics of bioethics: Mapping the moral landscape
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
Carolyn Ells

Jackie Leach Scully. Disability bioethics: Moral bodies, moral difference
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008)
Rosemarie Tong

Issue 4.1
Maxwell J. Mehlman. The price of perfection: Individualism and society in the era of biomedical enhancement
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
Anita Silvers

Progress in bioethics: Science, policy, and politics, edited by
Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger
(MIT Press, 2009)
James Lindemann Nelson

Katrina Karkazis and Elizabeth Reis. Bioethics and the disciplines: Recent work on the medical management of Intersex
Ellen K. Feder

Issue 4.2
Karen L. Baird, Beyond reproduction: Women’s health, activism, and public policy
(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008)
Amanda R. Clarke

Elizabeth A. McGibbon and Josephine B. Etowa, Anti-racist health care practices
(Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2009)
Kathryn L. MacKay

Feminist bioethics: At the center, on the margins, edited by
Jackie Leach Scully, Laurel E. Baldwin-Ragaven, and Petya Fitzpatrick
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
Robyn Bluhm

Issue 5.1
Elly Teman, Birthing a mother: The surrogate body and the pregnant self
(University of California Press, 2010)
Omi Leisner

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
(New York: Crown Publishers, 2010)
Lisa Parker

Issue 5.2
Chloë Atkins, My imaginary illness: A journey into uncertainty and prejudice in medical diagnosis
(Cornell University Press, 2010)
Frances R. Batzer

Issue 6.1
Feminist disability studies, edited by Kim Q. Hall
(Indiana University Press, 2011)
Jackie Leach Scully

Lisa A. Eckenwiler, Long-term care, globalization, and justice
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
Lynette Reid