Prof Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner

Margaret's postdoctoral work shifted focus to the anthropology of medical and biological sciences. She set up a comparative research project on 'Genomics in Asia', exploring the socio-political and economic consequences of the application of the new genetic technologies in China, India and Japan. Central here is a comparison of biobanking practices, genetic testing and population policy-making. This research has led to several edited works, such as Genomics in Asia (Kegan Paul, 2004) and Biobanking in Asia (Kegan Paul, forthcoming 2008). Since joining the Anthropology Department at Sussex, Margaret's research has been concerned with stem cell research in Asian societies. Her ESRC fellowship (2007-8) concentrates on the institutional aspects of stem cell research in China and Japan, while her research jointly conducted with anthropology departments in Cambridge and Durham emphasises the transnational movement of intellectual and material resources and International Science and Bioethical Collaborations (ISBC). Additionally, Margaret is the Sussex University partner in Bionet, a EU sixth framework programme, which serves as a platform for twenty European and Chinese partners to discuss bioethical issues and regulation in Europe and China.

Graduated Doctoral Students: 

Suli Sui - Predictive genetic testing in China (University of Amsterdam)

Current Doctoral Students

Achim Rosemann - Stem cell research in Taiwan and mainland China

Ole Kaland – Internal migration and education in China

Kwangwoo Park – Transnational migration in South Korea

Samara Khan - Food security in the UK

Pin-Hsien Wu - Environmental movements in China and India - mining

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2013) Latent science collaboration: strategic cultures of bioethical capacity building in mainland China's stem cell world. Biosocieties, 8 (32). pp. 7-24. ISSN 1745-8552

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret and Hwang, Seyoung (2012) Governance of stem cell research: public participation and decision-making in China, Japan, South-Korea, Taiwan and the U. Social Studies of Science, 42 (5). pp. 684-708. ISSN 0306-3127

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret and Patra, Prasanna Kumar (2011) Experimental stem cell therapy: biohierarchies and bionetworking in Japan and India. Social Studies of Science, 41 (4). pp. 645-696. ISSN 0306-3127

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2011) Regulating Cell Lives in Japan: Avoiding Scandal and Sticking to Nature. New Genetics and Society, 30 (3). pp. 227-240. ISSN 1463-6778

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2011) Looking beyond the regulatory exteriors of stem cell research in Asia - discussion. New Genetics and Society, 30 (3). pp. 279-288. ISSN 1463-6778

Kato, Masae and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2011) Dichotomies of collectivism and individualism in bioethics: selective abortion debates and issues of self-determination in Japan and 'the West'. Social Science & Medicine, 73 (4). pp. 507-514. ISSN 0277-9536

Zhang, Xinqing and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2011) Tensions between Medical Professionals and Patients in Mainland China: Issues of communication, trust and medical provisions. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 20 (3). pp. 458-467. ISSN 0963-1801

Patra, Prasanna Kumar and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2011) Recruiter-patients as ambiguous symbols of health: bionetworking and stem cell therapy in India. New Genetics and Society, 30 (2). pp. 155-166. ISSN 1463-6778

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2011) Stem Cell Research in Asia: Looking beyond formal regulatory exteriors. New Genetics and Society, 30 (2). pp. 137-139. ISSN 1463-6778

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret Elizabeth (2011) Genetic testing, governance, and the family in the People's Republic of China. Social Science and Medicine, 72 (11). pp. 1802-1809. ISSN 0277-9536

Kato, Masae and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2011) Meanings of the Embryo in Japan: narratives of IVF experiences. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33 (3). pp. 434-447. ISSN 0141-9889

Hwang, Seyoung and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2011) A narrative analysis of stem cell research scientists¿ reflections on ethical issues and the value of science. Journal of the Korean Association for Science and Education, 31 (3). pp. 455-474. ISSN 1226-5187

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret E (2010) National risk signatures and human embryonic stem cell research in mainland China. Health, Risk and Society, 12 (5). pp. 491-511. ISSN 1369-8575

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2010) Eugenic birth and fetal education: The friction between lineage enhancement and premarital testing among rural households in Mainland China. China Journal (64). pp. 121-141. ISSN 1324-9347

Sui, Suli and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2010) Choosing offspring - Case studies of prenatal genetic testing for thalassemia and the reproduction of a 'saviour sibling' in China. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 12 (2). pp. 167-175. ISSN 1369-1058

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2010) Editorial introduction. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 12 (2). p. 137. ISSN 1369-1058

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2010) Reproductive technologies and the quality of offspring in Asia: reproductive pioneering and moral pragmatism? Culture, Health and Sexuality, 12 (2). pp. 139-152. ISSN 1369-1058

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2010) Contested embryonic culture in Japan - public discussion, and human embryonic stem cell research in an aging welfare society. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 29 (1). pp. 44-70. ISSN 0145-9740

Patra, Prasanna Kumar and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2010) Bionetworking: between guidelines and practice in stem cell therapy enterprise in India. SCRIPTed, 7 (2). pp. 295-310. ISSN 1744-2567

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret Elizabeth (2010) Boundary making and 'good' stem cell research (SCR) in mainland China: including bioethics, excluding debate. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 4 (1). pp. 31-51. ISSN 1875-2160

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2010) Embryo controversies and governing stem cell research in Japan: how to regulate regenerative futures. In: Asian biotech : ethics and communities of fate. Duke University Press, pp. 215-238. ISBN 9780822347934

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret, ed. (2010) Frameworks of choice: predictive & genetic testing in Asia. IIAS publications series. Edited volumes, 3 . Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789089641656

Sleeboom, Margaret (2009) Genomics in Asia: the clash of bioethical interests. Unset. IIAS.

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret and Kato, Masae (2009) Cultures of marriage, reproduction and genetic testing in Japan. BioSocieties, 4 (2-3). pp. 115-127. ISSN 1745-8552

Patra, Prasanna Kumar and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2009) Bionetworking: experimental stem cell therapy and patient recruitment in India. Anthropology & Medicine, 16 (2). pp. 147-163. ISSN 1364-8470

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret and Patra, Prasanna Kumar (2009) Informed consent in genetic research and biobanking in India: some common impediments. Genomics, Society and Policy, 5 (1). pp. 100-113. ISSN 1746-5354

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2009) Collecting families: an institutional approach to human genetic biobanking in Indonesia. In: Human Genetic Biobanks in Asia: Politics of trust and scientific advancement. Routledge Contemporary Asia Series (12). Routledge, London, pp. 117-141. ISBN 9780710313416

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret, ed. (2009) Human genetic biobanks in Asia : politics of trust and scientific advancement. Routledge contemporary Asia series . Routledge. ISBN 9780710313416

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2008) Debates on human embryonic stem cell research in Japan: minority voices and their political amplifiers. Science as Culture, 17 (1). pp. 85-97. ISSN 0950-5431

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2008) The changing nature of ideology in the life sciences in mainland China: case-studies of human cloning and human embryonic stem cell research (hESR) in medical textbooks (1996-2005). BioSocieties, 3 (1). pp. 21-36. ISSN 1745-8552

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2008) The Bioethical Vacuum: national policies on human embryonic stem cell research in India and China. Journal of International Biotechnology Law, 5 (6). pp. 221-234. ISSN 1612-6068

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2008) National bias in identity construction: examples of academic grouping in East Asia. In: Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism: shadows of the past. Global Oriental, London & Calcutta, pp. 152-181. ISBN 9781905246618

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2007) Collecting families: an institutional approach to human genetic biobanking in Indonesia. Asian Journal of Social Science, 35 (4-5). pp. 626-656. ISSN 1568-4849

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2007) Regulating intellectual life in China: the case of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. China Quarterly, 189. pp. 83-99. ISSN 0305-7410

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2007) The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS): shaping the reforms, academia and China (1977-2003). China Studies, 9 . Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004153233

Sui, Suli and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2007) Commercial genetic testing in mainland China: Social, financial and ethical issues. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 4 (3). pp. 229-237. ISSN 1176-7529

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2007) Social-science perspectives on bioethics: Predictive Genetic Testing (PGT) in Asia. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 4 (3). pp. 197-206. ISSN 1176-7529

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2006) How to define a population: cultural politics and population genetics in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. BioSocieties, 1 (4). pp. 399-419. ISSN 1745-8552

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2006) Chinese concepts of euthanasia and healthcare. Bioethics, 20 (4). pp. 203-212. ISSN 0269-9702

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2006) Sampling policies of isolates of historical interest: the social and historical formation of research populations in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China. In: New Genetics, New Social Formations. Routledge, pp. 155-167. ISBN 9780415393232

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2005) The Harvard case of Xu Xiping: Exploitation of the people, scientific advance, or genetic theft? New Genetics and Society, 24 (1). pp. 57-78. ISSN 1463-6778

Sleeboom, Margaret (2004) Academic nations in China and Japan: framed in concepts of nature, culture and the universal. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series . RoutledgeCurzon, London. ISBN 9780415315456

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2004) Gender in the post-genomic era. In: Rethinking science and medicine from the perspective of gender in the post-Human Genome Project era. F-GENS publication series (2). Project C-3 of "Body, Medical Care, Science & Technology" Research Group, the 21st Century COE Program, Frontiers of Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo.

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret, ed. (2004) Genomics in Asia: a clash of bioethical interests? Kegan Paul. ISBN 9780710309433

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret (2004) Socio-genetic marginalization in Asia. A plea for a comparative approach to the relationship between genomics, governance, and social-genetic identity. In: Blood & data : ethical, legal and social aspects of human genetic databases : published for the International ELSAGEN Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, 25-28 August 2004. University of Iceland Press, Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 39-44. ISBN 9789979545934

Sleeboom, Margaret (2003) Monitored freedom: party and research reforms at CASS. China Report, 39 (2). pp. 213-227. ISSN 0009-4455

Sleeboom, Margaret (2002) The power of national symbols: the credibility of a dragon's efficacy. Nations and Nationalism, 8 (3). pp. 299-314. ISSN 1354-5078