Gamlin, Jennie, SahraGibbon, Paola M.Sesia & LinaBerrio (eds). Critical medical anthropology: perspectives in and from Latin America. 312 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: UCL Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper)

Anthropology as a global discipline still reflects power inequities between world regions, where the institutional weight of scholarship produced in Anglo-Saxon universities often leads to a lack of awareness of and engagement with the rich diversity of research which is produced in other languages and countries. This is the premise which the authors of this edited volume acknowledge and aim to challenge, by introducing the result of a collaborative effort which connects researchers working on contemporary medical anthropology in Latin America and based in the United Kingdom and some Latin American countries. The collaboration is presented as being institutional, theoretical, and empirical, and is inspired by the theoretical contribution of Latin American critical medical anthropology (CMA), both historical and contemporary, to medical anthropology, especially in the United Kingdom. This is a welcome endeavour, and one can only hope for more initiatives of this kind to be developed in the years to come.