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

"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)

• 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

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

"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)

• 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