Articles and Edited Volumes – Page 3 – Sama – Resource Group for Women and Health

Researching assisted conception from a feminist lens

By admin June 7, 2017 January 7, 2023 ART & Surrogacy Publications, Articles and Edited Volumes, Our Work, Publications, Surrogacy & ARTs

This article is part of the edited volume titled Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies:
Interdisciplinary Explorations, edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Padmini Swaminathan and published by Routledge India in 2017. This chapter analyses how the need to study and critically engage with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and their significant offshoot commercial gestational surrogacy has marked our decade-long engagement as a women’s health group. Continue reading

Recruiting to Give Birth: Agent-facilitators and the Commercial Surrogacy Arrangement in India

By admin March 15, 2017 January 7, 2023 ART & Surrogacy Publications, Articles and Edited Volumes, Our Work, Publications, Surrogacy & ARTs

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

“The invisible”: Participant’s experiences in clinical trials

By sama January 20, 2017 March 23, 2019 Articles and Edited Volumes, Ethics in Clinical Trials, Access to Medicines, Our Work, Publications

Sarojini Nadimpally, Divya Bhagianadh | PICR | 2017 The paper discusses the perspectives of clinical trial participants about the various aspects of Clinical Trials (CTs) and is based on the primary research conducted by Sama in 2012-13. The paper describes the… Continue reading

The Mental Healthcare Bill Fails to Humanise How Mental Illness is Approached

By sama December 16, 2016 March 23, 2019 Articles and Edited Volumes, Publications, Young Women and Mental Health

Kalyani Badola, Amrita Gupta, Ruchi Bhargava | The Wire |16 December 2016 The Mental Healthcare Bill, 2013 has received a lot of attention since it was passed by the Rajya Sabha in August this year. In the Bill, provisions like decriminalisation… Continue reading

Commercial Surrogacy: A Contested Terrain in the Realm of Rights and Justice

By admin December 8, 2016 February 13, 2018 Articles and Edited Volumes, Publications

Sama Resource Group for Women and Health | Arrow | 2016 This paper examines the phenomenon of surrogacy as an industry in India and provides an overview of its operations. An understanding of this industry will be strengthened through an… Continue reading

Along with a surrogacy law, regulate the provisioning of ARTs and IVF

By sama November 14, 2016 November 14, 2016 Articles and Edited Volumes, Publications

Sarojini N.| The Hindustan Times| 7 September 2016 The Surrogacy Bill 2016 allows only ‘altruistic’ surrogacy by a close relative for heterosexual Indian couples who have been married for five years and are childless. By putting a bar on homosexual… Continue reading

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