Sacred conceptions: Clinical theodicies, uncertain science, and technologies of procreation in India

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 451-465

  Bharadwaj, Aditya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted conception; Hinduism; Infertility; Modernity; Theodicy; Tradition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RELIGION; SOCIAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HINDUISM; HUMANS; INDIA; INFERTILITY; MALE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SOCIAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 33845346796     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-006-9032-0     Document Type: Article

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