Transnational commercial surrogacy in India: Gifts for global sisters?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 618-625

  Pande, Amrita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

gift giving; India; inequalities; narratives; reproductive travel; transnational commercial surrogacy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMMERCIAL SURROGACY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIELD WORK; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIA; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDICAL TOURISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TRAVEL;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL TOURISM; NARRATION; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURROGATE MOTHERS;

EID: 80455177034     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.07.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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