{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,8]],"date-time":"2026-03-08T22:11:07Z","timestamp":1773007867381,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":64,"publisher":"Wiley","issue":"4","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,4]],"date-time":"2023-09-04T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1693785600000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Med Anthropol Q"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,12]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:p>Between the late 1970s and 1990s, many indigenous Lisu people in the Nu River Valley, an Eastern Himalayan region of China bordering Myanmar and Tibet, underwent what they referred to as \u201cdoing medicine\u201d\u2014abortions, vasectomies, and tubal ligations\u2014as part of China's Birth Planning Policy. Lisu, who endured these procedures, struggle with strength loss, nervousness, and pain. Government discourses diminish the Lisu experience, arguing that the policy was lenient toward them. Lisu themselves are reticent to share their experiences but have devised new practices to care for those affected. Drawing on long\u2010term ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that these chronic illnesses and accompanying care practices constitute everyday forms of remembering through which Lisu give shape to their experiences of cultural loss under Chinese colonization while generating new social relationships. This analysis sheds light on Indigenous experiences of birth planning in China with broader implications for understanding the bureaucratic violence of medicine.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/maq.12807","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,4]],"date-time":"2023-09-04T14:52:34Z","timestamp":1693839154000},"page":"354-366","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["The afterlife of \u201cdoing medicine\u201d: Birth planning, chronic illness, and regeneration among the Lisu on the China\u2013Myanmar border"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"37","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6507-468X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ting Hui","family":"Lau","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sociology and Anthropology National University of Singapore Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","volume-title":"Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory","author":"Antze P.","year":"1996"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_3_1","unstructured":"Arsenault C.2018. \u201cDozens of Indigenous Women Forcibly Sterilized in Canada UN Committee Hears.\u201dReuters November 23 2018.https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us\u2010canada\u2010healthcare\u2010lawsuit\u2010feature\u2010idUSKCN1NS1W2"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_4_1","volume-title":"Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi","author":"Banerjee D.","year":"2020"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5117\/9789053569115"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_6_1","unstructured":"BBC News.2022. \u201cInuit Greenlanders Demand Answers over Danish Birth Control Scandal.\u201d BBC September 30 2022.https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world\u2010europe\u201063049387"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_7_1","volume-title":"In the Camps: China's High\u2010tech Penal Colony","author":"Byler D.","year":"2021"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/maq.12700"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1023\/B:MEDI.0000018099.85466.c0"},{"issue":"1","key":"e_1_2_10_10_1","first-page":"67","article-title":"Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain","volume":"125","author":"Das V.","year":"1996","journal-title":"Daedalus"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_11_1","volume-title":"Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary","author":"Das V.","year":"2007"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_12_1","volume-title":"Economic Organization of the Lisu of the Thai Highlanders","author":"Dessaint A. Y.","year":"1972"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/maq.12174"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_14_1","volume-title":"Culture, Power, and the State Rural North China, 1900\u20131942","author":"Duara P.","year":"1988"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_15_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1163\/22134379-90002684"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_16_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/01459740.2018.1539974"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_17_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1163\/157006106777998106"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_18_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1525\/aa.2002.104.4.1098"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_19_1","first-page":"154","article-title":"Suixiang\u2010rusu: zhongmian Lisuzu Jidujiao de zaidihua bijiao yanjiu (Follow the local customs: on the indigenization of Christianity in Myanmar and China)","volume":"3","author":"Gao Z","year":"2020","journal-title":"Shijie zongjiao yanjiu (Studies in World Religion)"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_20_1","volume-title":"Transformations of Lisu Social Structure under Opium Control and Watershed Conservation in Northern Thailand","author":"Gillogly K. A.","year":"2006"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_21_1","volume-title":"Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction","author":"Ginsburg F.","year":"1995"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_22_1","first-page":"29","volume-title":"Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective","author":"Good B.","year":"1992"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_23_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1525\/ae.1994.21.1.02a00010"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_24_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1515\/9780804767217"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_25_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1525\/9780520951754"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_26_1","volume-title":"Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers","author":"Harrell S.","year":"1995"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_27_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1548-1360.2010.01060.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_28_1","volume-title":"Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China","author":"Hostetler L.","year":"2001"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_29_1","volume-title":"Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China","author":"Howlett Z. M.","year":"2021"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_30_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1163\/9789004644557"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_31_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.3167\/9781845454067","volume-title":"Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium","author":"Inhorn M. C.","year":"2007"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_32_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.319.7215.992"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_33_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/1363461506070794"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_34_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/104973239200200202"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_35_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/469474"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_36_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/01459740.2018.1458308"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_37_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/1467-9655.13864"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_38_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7312\/lave19470"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_39_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/maq.12709"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_40_1","volume-title":"Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China","author":"Liu S.","year":"2011"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_41_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5749\/vergstudglobasia.4.2.0107"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_42_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/maq.12277"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_43_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1215\/9780822371779"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_44_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/09552367.2010.484950"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_45_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1525\/9780520935549"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_46_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1163\/187656109793645706"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_47_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/maq.12405"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_48_1","unstructured":"Rabinovitch S.2013. \u201cData Reveal Scale of China Abortions.\u201d Financial Times March 15 2013.https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6724580a\u20108d64\u201311e2\u201382d2\u201300144feabdc0"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_49_1","volume-title":"Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception: A History of Birth Control in Puerto Rico","author":"Ram\u00edrez de Arellano A. B.","year":"1983"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_50_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1525\/9780520963207"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_51_1","volume-title":"Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition","author":"Santos G. D.","year":"2021"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_52_1","volume-title":"Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty\u2010First Century","author":"Santos G. D.","year":"2017"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_53_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1515\/9781503603004"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_54_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/713779090"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_55_1","volume-title":"Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice","author":"Silliman J.","year":"2004"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_56_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1525\/9780520958555"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_57_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/etho.12248"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_58_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.17763\/haer.79.3.n0016675661t3n15"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_59_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/01459740.2019.1643855"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_60_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1525\/9780520935396"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_61_1","volume-title":"The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir","author":"Varma S.","year":"2020"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_62_1","volume-title":"Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance","author":"Vizenor G. R.","year":"1994"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_63_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7591\/9780801469787"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_64_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1057\/9780230210943_9"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_65_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/j.ctt1wx93w7"}],"container-title":["Medical Anthropology Quarterly"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/maq.12807","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,27]],"date-time":"2024-10-27T12:46:07Z","timestamp":1730033167000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/maq.12807"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,4]]},"references-count":64,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,12]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1111\/maq.12807"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/maq.12807","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["0745-5194","1548-1387"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0745-5194","type":"print"},{"value":"1548-1387","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,4]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2022-07-18","order":0,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2023-06-06","order":1,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2023-09-04","order":2,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}