Substantial Relations

Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India

Sandra Bärnreuther (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2021
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5819-5 (ISBN)

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Substantial Relations examines global reproductive medicine in India, focusing on in vitro fertilization. Since the 1970s, India has played a central but shifting role in shaping global reproductive medicine—from a provider of raw material, to a producer of knowledge and technology, to a creator of a thriving medical market that attracts patients from all over the world. Relying on archival material and oral history, Substantial Relations traces the path of this transnational historical trajectory. This book also examines the contemporary making of IVF in Delhi. Drawing on ethnographic research in homes, hospitals, and laboratories, Sandra Bärnreuther provides deep insights into the intricacies of clinical life and everyday experience by depicting IVF users' quest for offspring and their fears of establishing unwanted ties, as well as the minute engagements of clinicians and laboratory staff with reproductive substances.

Thinking through substances—metaphorically and materially—Sandra Bärnreuther provides a novel and rich analysis of the various relations that the burgeoning IVF sector in India has relied on and generated. Substantial Relations contributes to a broader understanding of reproductive medicine as a global phenomenon constantly in the making, situating India in the midst of, rather than peripheral to, this process.

Sandra Bärnreuther is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Introduction

1. From Urine to Ampoule: The Commodity Chain of a Hormone

2. From Dismissal to Recognition: A Contested Claim

3. From Hobby to Industry: How IVF Diversified

4. The Clinic and Beyond: Reproductive Temporalities

5. When Cells Circulate: Unwanted Ties

6. Inside the Laboratory: Embryo Ethics

Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	13 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-5819-5 / 1501758195
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-5819-5 / 9781501758195
Zustand	Neuware