Category: ART & Surrogacy Publications

In the context of an ongoing transnational reconfiguration of reproduction, emerging fertility markets based on assisted reproductive technologies and reproductive value chains shape new forms of labour, new labour relations and new subjectivities. Due to ethical considerations, many nation states restrict or ban certain reproductive technologies and waged reproductive labour. Often moral discourses, similar to those around sex work, and a discourse about the gift economy and altruism among women, obscure labour issues. Continue reading

This article is part of the edited volume titled Ethics in Public Health Practice in India, edited by Arima Mishra and Kalyani Subbiah, and published by Springer Singapore in 2018. The chapter seeks to contextualize Sama’s work on assisted reproductive technologies and commercial surrogacy from a bioethical framework. Continue reading

This article is part of the edited volume titled Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives From India, Germany and Israel, edited by Sayani Mitra, Silke Schicktanz and Tulsi Patel, and published by Springer Verlag, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham in 2018. This chapter is part of Sama’s attempt to advance more clarity and nuance on the vexed question of commercial surrogacy in India. Continue reading

This article by Sarojini Nadimpally and Vrinda Marwah is part of the edited volume titled Equity and Access: Healthcare Studies in India. The volume is edited by Purendra Prasad, Amar Jesani and Sujata Patel, and published by the Oxford University Press in 2018. Continue reading

This article is part of the edited volume titled Babies for Sale? – Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction edited by Miranda Davies and published in 2017. Featuring contributions from over thirty activists and scholars from a range of countries and disciplines, this collection offers the first genuinely international study of transnational surrogacy. Continue reading