Citation

Shapley D. Nature 1983; 302(5906): 280-281.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

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PMID

11655509

Abstract

The ethical obligations of Western anthropologists working in the People's Republic of China became an issue recently when Stanford University's anthropology department unanimously decided to dismiss doctoral candidate Steven Mosher because of his conduct while in an unnamed Chinese village. Mosher maintains that the dismissal was in retaliation for his publishing an article in a Taiwanese weekly about the practices of forced third trimester abortion and infanticide in the village. Neither Stanford nor Mosher has revealed the specific reasons for the dismissal.

Language: en