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Managing Potential in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on Gifts, Kinship, and the Process of Vernacularization (2013)
Journal Article
Simpson, B. (2013). Managing Potential in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on Gifts, Kinship, and the Process of Vernacularization. Current Anthropology, 54(Supplement 7), S87-S96. https://doi.org/10.1086/670173

Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) offer an ever-widening repertoire of possibilities for how bodies, substances, and relationships might be brought together in the accomplishment of reproduction. This article reflects on the tensions that ari... Read More about Managing Potential in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on Gifts, Kinship, and the Process of Vernacularization.

Precarious ethics: Toxicology research among self-poisoning hospital admissions in Sri Lanka. (2013)
Journal Article
Sariola, S., & Simpson, B. (2013). Precarious ethics: Toxicology research among self-poisoning hospital admissions in Sri Lanka. BioSocieties, 8(1), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2012.34

Self-harm using poison is a serious public health problem across Asia. As part of a broader effort to tackle this problem, medical research involving randomised clinical trials are used to identify effective antidotes among patients who have ingested... Read More about Precarious ethics: Toxicology research among self-poisoning hospital admissions in Sri Lanka..