Despite the increasing use ofreproductive technologies the world over, anthropological
studies have paid remarkablylimited attention to the ethical dilemmasinvolved in people's …

Induced abortion was introduced in Northern Vietnam in the 1960s as part of socialist efforts
to develop and modernise Vietnamese society. With approximately two million pregnancy …

Abortion decision making by rural villagers in Thailand must be understood within its
broader economic, social and ideological context. Abortion laws are highly restrictive in …

It is an established fact in present-day Thailand that most hospitals, both government and
privately owned, have, for years, been performing therapeutic abortions on women for health …

With the passing of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, women's
issues in Asia have moved increasingly to the forefront. One such issue, abortion, continues …

Under Thai law, abortion is illegal except under restricted circumstances. The only
conditions under which abortion is legal are if there is a substantial risk that the continuation …

In this article, I explore traditional Hmong explanations about abortion and the ethnomedical
knowledge and practices that pertain to it. The article derived from in-depth interviews and …

This paper describes the modern and traditional methods and techniques used in induced
abortion in Bangladesh, and the physiological problems faced by the abortion seekers. It …

Vietnam has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, with an annual number of eighty-
three induced abortions per one thousand women (Goodkind 1994). In most other countries …

This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context-in Thailand, where
over 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of methods. The book …