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The Lure of Hope : On the Transnational Surrogacy Trail from Australia to India.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (181 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781683930570
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Lure of HopeDDC classification:
  • 306.8743
LOC classification:
  • HQ759.5 .S763 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Genealogies of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy -- 2 Surrogates in India -- 3 The Intending Parents -- 4 Finding the Clinic -- 5 Caretakers and Conversion -- 6 The Lure of Hope -- 7 The Rhetoric of Tragedy and the Experience of Disaster -- 8 Transnational Surrogacy, Kinship, Connectedness, and the Gift -- Conclusion -- Terminology -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: India was the first among a trail of "pop up" third-party reproductive destinations including Thailand, Nepal, Mexico, and now Cambodia. Alongside the detailed ethnographic account of the experiences of parents and surrogate mothers the author offers a careful analysis of regulatory systems governing surrogacy and embryo use in Australia and India.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Genealogies of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy -- 2 Surrogates in India -- 3 The Intending Parents -- 4 Finding the Clinic -- 5 Caretakers and Conversion -- 6 The Lure of Hope -- 7 The Rhetoric of Tragedy and the Experience of Disaster -- 8 Transnational Surrogacy, Kinship, Connectedness, and the Gift -- Conclusion -- Terminology -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

India was the first among a trail of "pop up" third-party reproductive destinations including Thailand, Nepal, Mexico, and now Cambodia. Alongside the detailed ethnographic account of the experiences of parents and surrogate mothers the author offers a careful analysis of regulatory systems governing surrogacy and embryo use in Australia and India.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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