Conceptions: infertility and procreative technologies in India
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 incontemporary India.
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- Full title :Conceptions : infertility and procreative technologies in India / Aditya Bharadwaj.
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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 incontemporary India.
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- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1785332317, 9781785332319
- oclc:on1296129454
- LC Classification:RG133.5
- Dewey Decimal:618.1/78060954
Table of Contents
Fertile conceptions : culture and infertility -- Gendered conceptions : stigma, blame and infertility -- Contested conception : the medical politics of test-tube babies -- Politics of conception : the state and biomedicine -- Changing conceptions? 'Adoption' of assisted conception -- Supplementary conception : the other mother -- Long road to conception : emotional andfinancial costs -- In search of conception : clinicians, patients and clinics.
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