Liew Kai Khiun is a postdoctoral researcher at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore

• Introduction, Liew Kai Khiun; Part I Liberalizing Health; Chapter 1 Mediations of Health and the Development of a Nation: Late Suharto, Late Modernity, Steve Ferzacca; Chapter 2 Reporting HIV and its Broader Impact in Asia: The Case of Papua New Guinea (PNG), Trevor Cullen; Chapter 3 Reading HIV/AIDS in the Indian Media: Social, Cultural and Economic Constructions, Shaunak Sastry, Mohan J. Dutta; Chapter 4 Press Coverage of Bird Flu Epidemic in Vietnam, Annick Guénel, Sylvia Klingberg; Part II Feminizing Health; Chapter 5 Caesarean Birth, Media, Motherhood and Nation in Taiwan, Chen-I Kuan; Chapter 6 Information and Decision Making among Women with Breast Cancer: Constraints on the Informed Decision, Khor Yoke Lim, Gerald Goh Guan Gan; Chapter 7 Making the Oral Contraceptive “for Me” in Japan: Managing the Semiotics of Reproductive Health in Virtual Space, Kathryn Goldfarb; Part III Popularizing Health; Chapter 8 The Radio Communication Project in Nepal: Culture, Power, and Meaning in Constructions of Health, Mohan J. Dutta, Iccha Basnyat; Chapter 9 Of Plastic Beauties and Flower Boys: Representations of Cosmetic Surgery in South Korean Films, Kelly Fu; Chapter 10 When Distortion is Normal: The Media and Body Image Disturbance among Young People in Hong Kong, Annisa Lee Lai; Chapter 11 How to Live: Reading China’s Popular Health Media, Judith Farquhar;