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International Surrogacy as Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia - Andrea Whittaker

International Surrogacy as Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia

Buch | Softcover
250 Seiten
2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9683-9 (ISBN)
CHF 58,90 inkl. MwSt
Traces the development of the "disruptive" surrogacy industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia.
During the last two decades, a new form of trade in commercial surrogacy grew across Asia. Starting in India, a “disruptive” model of surrogacy offered mass availability, rapid accessibility, and created new demands for surrogacy services from people who could not afford or access surrogacy elsewhere.

 

In International Surrogacy as Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia, Andrea Whittaker traces the development of this industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia. Through a case study of the industry in Thailand, the book offers a nuanced and sympathetic examination of the industry from the perspectives of the people involved in it: surrogates, intended parents, and facilitators. The industry offers intended parents the opportunity to form much desired families, but also creates vulnerabilities for all people involved. These vulnerabilities became evident in cases of trafficking, exploitation, and criminality that emerged in southeast Asia, leading to greater scrutiny on the industry as a whole. Yet the trade continues in new flexible hybrid forms, involving the circulation of reproductive gametes, embryos, surrogates, and ova donors across international borders to circumvent regulations. The book demonstrates the need for new forms of regulation to protect those involved in international surrogacy arrangements.

 Andrea Whittaker is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and convener of anthropology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of several books, including Thai In Vitro: Culture, Gender, and Assistant Reproductive Technologies in Thailand.  

Contents

List of Illustrations                                                                                                                

Preface                                                                                                                                               

Notes on Language and Transliteration

List of Abbreviations                                                                                                             

Introduction                                                                                                                           

Chapter 1. The Growth of Disruptive Commercial Surrogacy in Asia                                  

Chapter 2. Merit and Money: The Moral Economy of Surrogacy                                         

Chapter 3. The Best of Intentions                                                                                         

Chapter 4. Facilitation                                                                                                                       

Chapter 5. Digital Umbilical Cords                                                                                       

Chapter 6. Rotten Trade                                                                                                        

Chapter 7. Baby Gammy                                                                                                       

Chapter 8. New Destinations, New Markets                                                                         

Conclusions: The Future of International Surrogacy                                                             

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Glossary

References

Index

 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 5 b-w, 7 tables
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Histologie / Embryologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-8135-9683-1 / 0813596831
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-9683-9 / 9780813596839
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