Conceptions: Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India
Language: English
Published by Orient BlackSwan, 2016
Series: Book 16 of 33 - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
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Contents: Preface: Test-Tube Conceptions. Introduction: Conceptualizing conceptions: an introduction. 1. Fertile Conceptions: Culture and Infertility. 2. Gendered Conceptions: Stigma, Blame and Infertility. 3. Contested Conception: The Medical Politics of Test-Tube Babies. 4. Politics of Conception: The State and Biomedicine. 5. Changing Conceptions? Adoption of Assisted Conception. 6. Supplementary Conception: The Other Mother. 7. Long Road to Conception: Emotional and Financial Costs. 8. In Search of Conception: Clinicians, Patients and Clinics. Afterword: Conceptions. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Assisted reproductive technologies have become a visible part of contemporary Indian reality. Popular culture, print and electronic media, and the expansion of IVF clinics in Indian cities and towns have together normalised the idea of test-tube babies . For the first time in modern India, the traditionally stigmatised condition of infertility and its cultural and biomedical management is being vocally and publicly articulated. Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the intersection of multiple cultural conceptions. These conceptions are key to understanding the spread of reproductive technologies and the social implications of infertility and childlessness in India. This study is situated in a number of diverse locales: the political economy of health in India; biomedical politics within the private sector; emerging governance frameworks to control the application of these technologies; the mass media as a field for promoting and contesting assisted conception; traditional norms and ideas and their continued relevance in the contemporary religious domain; and the way Indian culture produces gendered suffering, stigma and the eventual engagement with conception technologies. Together, these aspects unravel the complex nature of infertility and assisted conception in contemporary India. Conceptions will be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, medical science and technology studies.…
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- Title
- Conceptions: Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India
- Author
- Aditya Bharadwaj
- Publisher
- Orient BlackSwan
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 8125063277
- ISBN 13
- 9788125063278
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 16 of 33: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
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..".this is a much needed, eagerly anticipated and important book for those scholars who work within the broad field of social studies of reproduction, and specifically for those who study assisted reproductive technologies." . Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen
"Surely, the book will become a 'must' for research on any related field, in university classes at every level of study, as well as a delightful reading for anyone interested in India, childbirth and infertility or the politics of healthcare, to mention but few." . Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, University of Haifa
"At once a history, theodicy, and ethnography of procreative technologies in India, Bharadwaj's lyrically written Conceptions provides a much-needed antidote to Western-centric narratives of India's fertility markets. Bharadwaj draws on and develops the concepts of misrecognition and stigma to describe the ways patients and their families and physicians navigate infertility, surrogacy, gamete donation, and adoption in complexly gendered, classed, and generational ways in a country torn between population control and pronatlism in which science and religion are co-conspirators. I thoroughly recommend this fine book." . Charis Thomas, University of California Berkeley"
"At once a history, theodicy, and ethnography of procreative technologies in India, Bharadwaj's lyrically written Conceptions provides a much-needed antidote to Western-centric narratives of India's fertility markets. Bharadwaj draws on and develops the concepts of misrecognition and stigma to describe the ways patients and their families and physicians navigate infertility, surrogacy, gamete donation, and adoption in complexly gendered, classed, and generational ways in a country torn between population control and pronatlism in which science and religion are co-conspirators. I thoroughly recommend this fine book." . Charis Thompson, University of California Berkeley
..".this is a much needed, eagerly anticipated and important book for those scholars who work within the broad field of social studies of reproduction, and specifically for those who study assisted reproductive technologies." . Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen
"Surely, the book will become a 'must' for research on any related field, in university classes at every level of study, as well as a delightful reading for anyone interested in India, childbirth and infertility or the politics of healthcare, to mention but few." . Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, University of Haifa"
"At once a history, theodicy, and ethnography of procreative technologies in India, Bharadwaj's lyrically written Conceptions provides a much-needed antidote to Western-centric narratives of India's fertility markets. Bharadwaj draws on and develops the concepts of misrecognition and stigma to describe the ways patients and their families and physicians navigate infertility, surrogacy, gamete donation, and adoption in complexly gendered, classed, and generational ways in a country torn between population control and pronatalism in which science and religion are co-conspirators. I thoroughly recommend this fine book." - Charis Thompson, University of California Berkeley
..".this is a much needed, eagerly anticipated and important book for those scholars who work within the broad field of social studies of reproduction, and specifically for those who study assisted reproductive technologies." - Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen
"Surely, the book will become a 'must' for research on any related field, in university classes at every level of study, as well as a delightful reading for anyone interested in India, childbirth and infertility or the politics of healthcare, to mention but few." - Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, University of Haifa
-At once a history, theodicy, and ethnography of procreative technologies in India, Bharadwaj's lyrically written Conceptions provides a much-needed antidote to Western-centric narratives of India's fertility markets. Bharadwaj draws on and develops the concepts of misrecognition and stigma to describe the ways patients and their families and physicians navigate infertility, surrogacy, gamete donation, and adoption in complexly gendered, classed, and generational ways in a country torn between population control and pronatalism in which science and religion are co-conspirators. I thoroughly recommend this fine book.- - Charis Thompson, University of California Berkeley
-...this is a much needed, eagerly anticipated and important book for those scholars who work within the broad field of social studies of reproduction, and specifically for those who study assisted reproductive technologies.- - Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen
-Surely, the book will become a 'must' for research on any related field, in university classes at every level of study, as well as a delightful reading for anyone interested in India, childbirth and infertility or the politics of healthcare, to mention but few.- - Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, University of Haifa
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