Substantial Relations: Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India

Bärnreuther, Sandra

Substantial Relations: Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India

dc.contributor.author	Bärnreuther, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-14T16:07:50Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-14T16:07:50Z
dc.date.issued	2021-12-15
dc.description.abstract	Substantial Relations examines global reproductive medicine in India, focusing on in vitro fertilization. Since the 1970s, India has played a central but changable role in shaping global reproductive medicine: from a provider of raw material, to a producer of knowledge and technology, to a thriving medical market that attracts patients from all over the world. Substantial Relations traces this transnational historical trajectory from the archive to oral history. 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.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7298/0rtf-ds33
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501758195 (print)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501758218 (epub)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501758201 (PDF ebook)
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/110718
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Cornell University Press
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Anthropology & Sociology
dc.subject	Health Care Policy & Practice
dc.subject	Reproductive technologies
dc.subject	IVF in India
dc.subject	History of reproductive medicine
dc.subject	Substances Anthropology
dc.subject	In Vitro Fertilization
dc.title	Substantial Relations: Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India
dc.type	book
dcterms.license	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/102797
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