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.
Daftar Isi
Preface: Test-Tube Conceptions
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Conceptualising Conceptions: An Introduction
PART I
Chapter 1. Fertile Conceptions: Culture and Infertility
Chapter 2. Gendered Conceptions: Stigma, Blame and Infertility
PART II
Chapter 3. Contested Conception: The Medical Politics of Test-Tube Babies
Chapter 4. Politics of Conception: The State and Biomedicine
PART III
Chapter 5. Changing Conceptions? ‘Adoption’ of Assisted Conception
Chapter 6. Supplementary Conception: The Other Mother
PART IV
Chapter 7. Long Road to Conception: Emotional and Financial Costs
Chapter 8. In Search of Conception: Clinicians, Patients and Clinics
Afterword: Conceptions
Notes
Bibliography
Tentang Penulis
Aditya Bharadwaj is Research Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
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