Symposium Participants

Susan Greenhalgh is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. Her work involves the emergence of a politics of life in the PRC, in particular, the creation and broad social, political, and bodily effects of the one-child policy. She is the author of several influential works, including Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics (Stanford, 2005, with Edwin A. Winckler) and Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain (California 2001). Her book The Origins of China's One-child Policy: An Ethnography of Science- and Policy-Making in Deng's China is forthcoming from the University of California Press.

Sandra Hyde received her PhD in Medical Anthropology from UC Berkeley in December 1999, and her dissertation, "Sex, Drugs and Karaoke: Making AIDS in Southwest China," was on the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in southwest China. She lived in China during the mid-1980s, and has worked for several health organizations as a public health planner and consultant. She has also served as a consultant for several non-governmental organizations in China on AIDS prevention and designing social science research protocols around HIV/AIDS. She previously worked as an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Medicine at Harvard University, and is now a professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University.

Iris Jin currently works at the Institute of Economics at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on medical security and rural access to health care. She has made several surveys in the countryside of Liaoning Province, Anhui Province, and Shanghai concerning the medical service and the cooperative medical schemes in rural China.

Yoshihara Kawabata graduated from the University of Tokyo Law School. He has worked as a lawyer since 1970, and is currently a partner at Kasumigaseki Law Offices in Tokyo. He is also a professor at the Omiya Law School and an adjunct lecturer at Waseda University Law School. Additionally, he serves as a committee member for the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Education in Japan, and has counseled various cases involving health and environmental pollution in Japan. Prior to that, he served on the committee for the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare where he investigated malpractices, examined hospitals and researched the medical environment in Japan. He has written various books regarding the introduction and the use of law in everyday life, and has written various law reviews including State of Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Company et al., New York c. Quarles, and Tennessee v. Garner.

Robert Leflar is Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law (Fayetteville) and adjunct rofessor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock). His specialties are health law, products liability, torts, contracts, and international comparative law with a focus on Japan. During 2005-2006, as the recipient of grants from the Japan Foundation and its Center for Global Partnership and from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, he has been conducting a research project, based at the University of Tokyo, on comparative approaches to the problem of medical error. He has previously carried out research in Japan as an Abé Fellow, Japan Foundation Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar. His publications include a book in Japanese on the development of informed consent in Japanese law and medicine, and articles on such topics as comparative health law, federal pre-emption of state-law products liability claims, and the regulation of medical products.

William R. LaFleur is the E. Dale Saunders Professor in Japanese Studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, and Sophia University in Tokyo and in 1989 was a recipient of the Watsuji Tetsuro Culture Prize for scholarship in Japanese. Although his earlier research focused on medieval Japan, in recent recent decades he turned attention to contemporary social and bioethical issues. His Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan (Princeton: 1992) was a comparative study and was recently published in Japanese. He is the principal editor of Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research in Germany, Japan, and the United States, in press in Indiana University Press’s series on bioethics. He has publishedmultiple essays on Japanese discussions of biotechnology and is writing a book that compares bioethics in Japan with its American counterpart. He is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Liu Changqiu recieved his bachelor's degree from Yantai University in 1999, and a master's degree from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in 2003 where he majored in life law and international economic law. He currently works at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Law. He has published several books as well as more than a hundred articles since 2001.

Liu Yingshuang recieved a Bachelor of Management degree from Xiangtan University in July 2000, and a Master of Law degree in 2003 from the Law School of Renmin University where she majored in civil and commercial law. She is currently an assistant professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Institute of Law.

Karen Nakamura is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at Yale University. Her research focuses broadly on issues of disability and minority social movements in Japan. Her book, Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Deaf Identity will be published by Cornell University Press this summer. Since the last year, she has been engaged in a new project on the comparative politics of severe disabilities in the United States and Japan.

Tiana Norgren is currently Policy Manager at the Medical and Health Research Association of New York City (MHRA), a non-profit public health service provider and research organization serving 200,000 low-income New Yorkers. Dr. Norgren was previously a program officer in the Program on Reproductive Health and Rights at George Soros's foundation, the Open Society Institute. She has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, and is author of Abortion Before Birth Control: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan (Princeton University Press, 2001).

Michele Rivkin-Fish received her PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University and specializes in gender, health, and postsocialist transformations in Russia and Poland. Since 1998, she has been on the faculty of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, and in fall 2006 she will begin a new appointment as Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. Her work touches on a range of themes, from international health development projects to sexuality and reproductive politics, the cultural analysis of demography and population science, and the politics of health care after socialism. She has published in journals such as American Anthropologist, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Social Science and Medicine, and her ethnographic monograph, Women’s Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention, was published in 2005 by Indiana University Press.

Shinichi Sugiyama is a graduate of the University of Tokyo Law School. He acted as a visiting scholar/researcher at NYU Law School from 1996 to 1997. A lawyer since 1992, Sugiyama is currently a partner at Harago & Partners Law Offices in Tokyo. He is also a committee member for Japan’s Lawyer’s Association and for the Zushi municipal committee for privacy rights in the Kanagawa prefecture. He has written various law reviews on HIV lawsuits in Japan, medical human rights issues, and comparative U.S. lawsuits.

Patricia M. Thornton is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she teaches comparative politics, including courses on East Asian politics, political corruption and social revolution. She has also served as the Director of Asian Programs and the Coordinator of the East Asian Studies Program at Trinity College. After receiving her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, she spent one year as an An Wang Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.

Shohei Yonemoto is the Director of the Center of Science Life and Society. After graduating from the University of Kyoto, he joined the Mitsubishi Institute of Life Science, and served on various research chair positions. He also served in governmental committees such as the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. He was a visiting professor at Shinshu University Medical School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and University of Tokyo Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology. He was also a member of Kyoto University Bhutan Research Team and Kyoto University Himalaya Medical Research Mountaineering Party. He is an author of various books, including Iden Kanri Shakai (received Mainichi Publisher Cultural Award, 1989) and Chiseigaku no Susume (received Yoshino Sakuzo Award, 1999).

Xia Guomei is the Director of the HIV/AIDS Social Policy Research Center at the Research Institute of Sociology, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. She is currently a visiting scholar at Old Dominion University. Her primary research focuses on AIDS/venereal diseases in women and other marginalized groups, including behavior intervention among the floating female population, social prevention patterns, and AIDS legislation. She has published several theses and reports, including "Report on Chinese HIV/AIDS Problem" and "HIV/AIDS in China." In recent years she has launched AIDS training in civil servants in Shanghai, and presided over a conference on HIV/AIDS legislation which was held cooperatively by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai Society of Law and Shanghai Institute of Legislation. She has also been a consultant at several international collaborative programs, and has been invited to make speeches on AIDS in China at various universities such as Beijing University, Tsing-Hua University, and Yale, to name just a few.