DISCUSSING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY AT THE MILLENIUM Vol. I , Issue V -- October 1999 Welcome to this issue of ReproTech, the news service of the Global Reproductive Health Forum at Harvard. This news source aims to keep you informed about the latest news, research and discussion in the field of reproductive health. If you have any information you would like to add to the next newsletter or if you would like to send any materials for us to put on-line, please email us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this Issue: I. Lots of New Materials from the Global Health Equity Initiative Project - Anthropology and Health Equity - Violence, Gender and Health Equity - Gender Inequalities and Health Sector Reform II. More New Original Research from India: - State Sponsored Violence Against Women - Sexuality in Modern India - Indigenous and Modern Modes of Fertility Control III. Other New Original Research Articles - Abortion - AIDS IV. New Forum: - Bio-Ethics Site/Course You can access all this material from our website at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf. ________________________________________________________________________ I. NEW ARTICLES FROM THE GLOBAL HEALTH EQUITY INITIATIVE PROJECT =============================== Several papers have been prepared under the Global Health Equity Initiative project on "Foundations of Health Equity" based at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/HUpapers/foundations/index.html Some examples... * Ethics and Experience: an Anthropological Approach to Health Equity Arthur Kleinman http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/HUpapers/foundations/kleinman.html * Health, Healing, and Their Values Julius M. Moravcsik http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/HUpapers/foundations/moravcsik.html *** *** Several papers have been prepared under the Global Health Equity Initiative project on "Gender and Health Equity" based at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and are available at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/HUpapers/gender/index.html Some examples include: * Violence Against Women, Gender and Health Equity Claudia García-Moreno http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/HUpapers/gender/garcia.html * Frameworks for Understanding Gender Inequalities and Health Sector Reform: An Analysis and Review of Policy Issues Hilary Standing http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/HUpapers/gender/standing.html ________________________________________________________________________ II. NEW ORIGINAL RESEARCH FROM INDIA =============================== Every month we publish more than 20 new articles together with SNDT and CWDS libraries in India, adding to our extensive collection of hundreds of works that discuss such topics as prenatal technology, reproductive technologies and culture, contraceptive morbidity, population projections, health care, and public policy. You can access these papers at the South Asia Global Reproductive Health Forum at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/forum.html A sampling of some titles for this month: SNDT: Status of Women: * Women, Health and Development Karkal, Malini.; Gupte, Manisha.; Sadgopal, Mira http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/suchana/0909/rh332.html SNDT: Status of Women: * Domestic Violence Against Women: An Investigation of Hospital Casualty Records, Mumbai Achala S. Daga; Shireen J. Jejeebhoy; Shantha Rajgopal http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/suchana/0929/rh370.html SNDT: Status of Women: * Population Control: State Sponsored Violence Against Women Karkal, Malini http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/suchana/0909/rh373.html SNDT: Sexuality: * Sexuality in Modern India: Critical Concerns John, Mary E.; Nair, Janaki http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/suchana/0909/rh365.html SNDT: Sexuality: * The Law and Homosexuality in India Joseph, Sherry http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/suchana/0909/rh374.html SNDT: Fertility: *Indigenous Modes of Fertility Control - Chapter 6 from Fertility Behaviour: Population and Society in a Rajasthan Village Patel, Tulsi http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/suchana/0929/rh382.html SNDT: Fertility: * Modern Fertility Control: People's Experiences - Chapter 7 from Fertility Behaviour: Population and Society in a Rajasthan Village Patel, Tulsi http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/suchana/0929/rh384.html * Our second issue of RE/PRODUCTIONS, at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/repro2/issue2.htm discusses sex trafficking, the body, representation, and the trade of prostitution and globalization. ________________________________________________________________________ III. OTHER NEW ORIGINAL RESEARCH =============================== Research Library: New Work: New Frameworks for Reproductive Rights: * AIDS in Mexico: A Human Rights Problem by ProPositivo Human Rights Centre Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/HIV/docs/sidamexico2.html Research Library: Abortion: Gender, Politics and Rights * Female Demographic Disadvantage in India 1981-1991: Sex Selective Abortion, Female Infanticide and Excess Female Child Mortality S. Sudha and S. Irudaya Rajan http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/gender/docs/sudha.html ________________________________________________________________________ IV. NEW FORUMS =============================== * NEW BIO-ETHICS FORUM: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/bioethics/ The bio-ethics site is a website which acts as an electronic venue for education and discussion about the emerging ethical questions in international health research within a context of changing medical technologies and globalization. An on-line educational course is offered that studies ethical issues arising as more health research is conducted in developing countries, reflect differences in cultures, politics, wealth, standards of care, individual and group rights, and priorities. This site is part of the Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research at the Harvard School of Public Health. ________________________________________________________________________ You or someone you know has subscribed you to this service or you are getting this e-mail through a mailing list you are subscribed to. If you do not want to receive these updates please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe" in the subject line.