Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State by Martha Lincoln belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in contemporary Vietnam. It should also find a much broader scholarly audience among those doing health-related research on policies and interventions in the global south, particularly the global and transnational dimensions of health and health care.

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

In Epidemic Politics, [the author] provides an incisive and beautifully poignant account of the lived experience of poverty and disease in late-socialist Vietnam. Deftly moving between the worlds of state bureaucracy, public health surveillance and the intimate space of the home, this book asks what cholera epidemics - and their social response - can teach us about the market forces and political decisions that produce vulnerability to disease, and what is needed to survive epidemics humanely.

Claire Edington, Associate Professor, UC San Diego