Emily Martin teaches anthropology at New York University. She is the author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (1987), Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS (1994), and Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture (2007). She is the founding editor of the public interest magazine Anthropology Now.
Emily Martin
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Cancer’s Poison Gift
S. Lochlann Jain’s Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us is both a memoir of the author’s personal journey as a cancer patient and a trenchant analysis of why preventing cancer has never been an American priority, even though it afflicts so many of us. Jain is well known for her work on the cultural, legal, and […]
