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...that thorny issues can always be resolved by adhering to government policy?and that individuals' health and welfare come second. One text, Analyzing Ethics in Clinical Cases, neatly files down the horns of a familiar dilemma. On page 24, the authors present the case of a seven-month-pregnant peasant woman who is forced by family-planning officials to abort. She submits, but the baby survives. When the woman refuses to let the doctors "dispose" of her infant son, the book says practitioners should "act according to the one-child policy... [and] point out that because medical abortions can affect...
...Still, there are signs of protest, if not change. Huang Shurong, a peasant from the northern province of Heilongjiang, was committed by psychiatrists to a mental institution five times from 1998 to 2002 for complaining that local officials had taken her best farmland. A website run by the Procuratorial Daily, the newspaper of China's prosecutor's office, last year published a review of her case in which doctors were warned not to comply with police seeking expedient ways of incarcerating undesirables. "Medical staff are an essential link in the chain of evil that produces these abuses, and this should...
When the roommates finally met in Japan, they traveled together to an island called Shikoku, where they spent six days living in a 300-year-old peasant hut and working the land...
...peasant tops. This year the bohemian look has been supplanted by Asian attire, including cheongsams, kimono-style shirts and pants replete with embroidery, along with jewelry of engraved lacquer, jade and coral. Asian fashion, of course, has been around for centuries, but every so often Westerners rediscover its riches. "China, and its abundant heritage, offers boundless inspiration," says Stanislas de Quercize, president and CEO of Cartier, whose company this April launched a new line, Le Baiser du Dragon (The Kiss of the Dragon) with designs invoking Chinese openwork screens and fen ling wind bells. Cartier's diamond wish-knot pendant...
...hard to imagine China's peasant farmers, with their garden-size plots and primitive technology, matching Western agroindustry, but Trett will do his part to get them there. He has been hired by Chinaveg, a private company owned by the Hong Kong venture-capital firm Interasia and other investors. Trett's mission: to modernize farming techniques for the 6,000 tons a year of lettuce that Chinaveg grows, washes, cuts and packages for sale to buyers in China, including KFC's operations there, to the Japanese fast-food giants Ajinomoto and Yoshinoya and to hundreds of supermarkets...