ISBN:
9781785332319
Sprache:
Unbestimmte Sprache
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (312 p)
Ausgabe:
1st edition
Serie:
Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 34
Paralleltitel:
Available in another form
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Bharadwaj, Aditya, 1971 - Conceptions
Schlagwort(e):
Infertility
;
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
;
Sociological Factors
;
India
;
Indien
;
Sterilität
;
Reproduktionsmedizin
Kurzfassung:
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
Kurzfassung:
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 --
Anmerkung:
Zielgruppe - Audience: Professional and scholarly
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