Conceptions : : Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India / / Aditya Bharadwaj.
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 lon...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface: Test-Tube Conceptions
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Conceptualising Conceptions
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index