"The Chosen Body demonstrates that passionate scholarship is not an oxymoron . . . . [This] is a great ethnography of how societies shape bodies, but its importance as a work of moral testimony may be even greater."--Canadian Journal of Sociology Online
"The Chosen Body is thought-provoking and has far-reaching importance and relevance for all students of human behavior."--The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Meira Weiss is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.