Conceptions

Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India

AvAditya Bharadwaj

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del 34 i serien Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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Beskrivning

Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions. These `conceptions' are key to understanding the burgeoning spread of assisted reproductive technologies and the social implications of infertility and childlessness in India. This longitudinal study is situated in a number of diverse locales which, when taken together, unravel the complex nature of infertility and assisted conception in contemporary India.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-25
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785332302

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Reproduktionsmedicin inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Aditya Bharadwaj is Research Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Recensioner i media

"This book is undoubtedly a valuable contribution to the emerging ethnographies from non-Western settings on assisted conception. It is also a pertinent reminder of the significance of religion in understanding the local variations in both managing and making sense of assisted conception. With its comparative gaze, it provides an important mirror, challenging Western assumptions." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: Test-Tube ConceptionsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Conceptualising Conceptions: An IntroductionPART IChapter 1. Fertile Conceptions: Culture and InfertilityChapter 2. Gendered Conceptions: Stigma, Blame and InfertilityPART IIChapter 3. Contested Conception: The Medical Politics of Test-Tube BabiesChapter 4. Politics of Conception: The State and BiomedicinePART IIIChapter 5. Changing Conceptions? 'Adoption' of Assisted ConceptionChapter 6. Supplementary Conception: The Other MotherPART IVChapter 7. Long Road to Conception: Emotional and Financial CostsChapter 8. In Search of Conception: Clinicians, Patients and ClinicsAfterword: ConceptionsNotesBibliography