The Newsletter 52 Winter 2009

Guest Editor Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner’s theme on Genomics in Asia reveals the promise of revolutionary technologies and biomedical knowledge but also the bioethical concerns their application brings.

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The Focus

The Focus

Genomics in Asia

Bioethics and life science in Asia

Life without value? Voices of embryo donors for hESC research in China

'What would you do, doctor sahib?' Pre-natal testing in the socio-cultural context of India

Selective abortion in Japan

Double discrimination Sickle cell anaemia prevention programmes in India

Creating a 'saviour sibling' in China

Turning misfortune into blessing Public confidence in hESC after Hwang

Beyond Hwang. 'International stem cell war' in South Korea

Human subjects in Chinese ethnic biobanks

Biomedical research in South Asia. Ethical review, remit and responsibility

The Study

The Shanghai model

Thailand's acrimonious adjacency to Cambodia (Part 2)

Indonesian literature in exile, 1965-1998

Journey through the archipelago: Photographs of the former Dutch East Indies

A tale of two systems: questioning land tenure reform in China

Local party procedures: field notes from Malang

Eroding Kashmiriyat

The Orissa famine of 1866

International student mobility

The Review

The folk zoology of Southeast Asian wildmen

Revisiting Sugarlandia

Model mythical women

Is the grass greener on the 'Other' side?

All at sea?

National politics, local contexts

'Inventing' the horse

Reinventing the wheel

The State and statism in Burma (Myanmar)

The Portrait

Kazakh embroidered wall hangings

The Network

Children's Day in India