“A magnificently capacious volume, that enlivens the argument that reproduction sits at the heart of all of anthropological theory, and profoundly makes the case that reproductive justice is earth justice.”

— Elizabeth Roberts, University of Michigan

“This important and passionate volume is a landmark manifestation of anthropological insight in the field of reproductive medicine. The volume highlights deeply embodied human experiences, while also offering critical analyses of the gendered political economies that shape procreative conditions across uneven global terrains. This is an indispensable resource for 21st century studies of human reproduction.”

— Tine M. Gammeltoft, University of Copenhagen

“Van Hollen and Appleton have curated a stunning compendium on reproduction. The Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology is essential to understanding the landscape of reproduction. The breadth of subject matter covered and the contributions provide an excellent map of the field of the anthropology of reproduction. The editors have done an incredible job of bringing together rich scholarship that is fundamental across disciplines.”

— Dana-Ain Davis, City University of New York

“Essential reading for anyone interested in cancer and global health in the 21 st century.”

— Dwaipayan Banerjee, MIT

“Van Hollen’s magnificent ethnography…is at once a moving account, an expert diagnosis and a moral compass offering navigational steer to our collective struggles.”

— Aditya Bharadwaj, The Graduate Institute, Geneva

“This intimate and powerful ethnography…demand(s) we take seriously the ways marginalized women at once understand the body as holding the injustices of the world and turn that reckoning into critical summons for change.”

 — Sarah Pinto, Tufts University

This path-breaking feminist ethnography…offers refreshingly new insights into the gendered experiences of illness and health.

 — S. Anandhi, Madras Institute for Development Studies

Cancer and the Kali Yuga is a compelling and disturbing portrait of cancer’s uneven impacts. 

— Lenore Manderson, University of the Witwatersrand

“This path-breaking volume…Van Hollen’s compassionate, humanizing account sheds light on women’s strength and resilience in the midst of a cruel epidemic”

—Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University

“Van Hollen…vividly brings out the stark realities that women living with HIV face during their reproductive years…. Birth in the Age of AIDS provides a new perspective on the history of the international and domestic response to the AIDS epidemic in India”

—Robert Clay and Marta Levitt, Global Health Bureau, USAID

“…ground-breaking… an essential teaching resource for… medical anthropology and sociology, and global health.”

—Kaveri Qureshi, University of Oxford

“…brilliant, genre-crossing ethnography…This is feminist medical anthropology at its best”

—Lynn Morgan, Anthropology & Medicine

“…the best of a new generation of ethnographies critically rethinking the anthropology of childbirth… necessary reading for all scholars of body, gender, and governmentality in South Asia…destined to become a classic in medical anthropology”

—Lawrence Cohen, University of California-Berkeley

"…provides a subtle and important contribution to the understanding of Indian modernity”

—Patricia Jeffery, University of Edinburgh

“…an incisive, innovative, and compassionate ethnographer throughout this standard-setting book. Birth on the Threshold is an example of medical anthropology at its very best…”

—Coomaraswamy Book Prize Committee, Association for Asian Studies

“sensitive ethnography…a valuable contribution to our understanding of women’s reproductive choices, childbirth, and biomedical intervention in India”

—Kusum Gopal, London School of Economics

“…beautifully written….an important new contribution to medical anthropological scholarship on reproduction as well as to the theoretical debates on modernity and development”

—Carolyn Sargent, Washington University