Peripheral Visions: Anthropological Perspectives on Bioethics, Biomedicine and Biotechnologies Sri Lanka by Bob Simpson Research creatively using language to shape

creatively using language to shape raw life into evocative fiction

The traditional distinctive Dumbara weaving comes from the valley of that name

The more he thinks about it

a compassion that is able to register contradiction and complexity without passing judgement

and the rewards of pure organic beauty never disappoint

Peripheral Visions: Anthropological Perspectives on Bioethics, Biomedicine and Biotechnologies Sri Lanka by Bob Simpson Research creatively using language to shapeA wonderful collection of previously published articles dealing with the interaction between bio medicine and socio cultural dynamics in Sri Lanka. For the benefit of Sri Lankan readers in particular, it brings together nearly two decades of deeply insightful anthropological research on a variety of related subjects including the introduction of responses to new reproductive health and genetic technologies in Sri Lanka, bioethics and cultural