Social Sciences, Bioethics, and the Question of Population.

The deep interconnections between biology, population politics, and ethics have been strongly brought to the fore by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As the most populous countries in the world, India and China have come to mark our collective conscience in significant ways (Eklund and Purewal [6]; Kaur [13]). Resulting familial, kinship, and policy shifts are paramount in the ways in which China and India are approaching reproductive technologies and demographic transformation. The papers presented in this special issue emerged from a conference on 'Reproduction, Demography and Cultural Anxieties in India and China in the 21 SP st sp Century' held at New Delhi, India, in February 2020. [Extracted from the article]