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Voices behind the silence: Chinese moral views and experiences of abortion.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Voices behind the silence: Chinese moral views and experiences of abortion./
Author:	Nie, Jing-Bao.
Description:	410 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1208.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-04A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9924633
ISBN:	0599242035

Voices behind the silence: Chinese moral views and experiences of abortion.
Nie, Jing-Bao.

Voices behind the silence: Chinese moral views and experiences of abortion. - 410 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1208.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Galveston, 1999.

This is the first in-depth academic effort in any language that explores contemporary mainland Chinese people's moral understandings of induced abortion. This study presents an humanistic narrative on Chinese views and experiences of abortion in the context of culture. Its theoretical and methodological orientation is descriptive, interpretative and interdisciplinary. The first-hand empirical information this work is built from the author's personal experience, a pilot study conducted among twenty overseas Chinese students and scholars currently living in the U.S., and fieldwork carried out in mainland China. In the field research, eighty people—mainly women who had abortions and doctors who routinely performed abortions—were interviewed. Moreover, six hundred and one subjects—who lived in two northern cities, two southern cities, and three southern villages—were surveyed.

ISBN: 0599242035Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Voices behind the silence: Chinese moral views and experiences of abortion.
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520 $a This study results in a series of findings and arguments. In spite of the public and even private silence, contemporary mainland Chinese people speak in diverse voices on abortion. Abortion is very acceptable socially and culturally in China, while some religious groups, especially Catholics, oppose it in general. The Chinese national family planning program is highly supported or accepted by all population groups surveyed, such as rural and urban people intellectuals, university students, doctors, and even Catholics. Chinese people voice very different opinions about when a human life starts—at contraception or at birth or sometime during pregnancy—while most consider the fetus a life. Most doctors show no moral conflict in performing abortions, because they believe they are serving women and the country. But there are exceptions. Abortion can be an unforgettable and bitter experience for Chinese women interviewed. With very complex meanings, Chinese silence on abortion indicates not only the widespread fear among people resulting from political repression but also a cultural tradition in Chinese society in which fetal life is usually not given significant moral attention. Coerced abortion associated with the national birth control program may be a genuine moral dilemma when the cultural context is taken into account.
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