Extending Theory, Rupturing Boundaries: Reproduction, Health, and Medicine Beyond North-South Binaries

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Nayantara Sheoran

Nayantara Sheoran is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. As a postdoctoral research fellow, she is extending her engagement with biomedicine and burgeoning biotechnologies in India. She is conducting extended fieldwork in India on the sociocultural and ethical implications of the emergence of stem cell biotechnologies (both embryonic and adult), while also elaborating on parts of her dissertation research, which critically analyzes pharmaceutical contraceptives.

Daisy Deomampo

Daisy Deomampo is assistant professor of Anthropology at Fordham University, New York. She is a medical and cultural anthropologist whose current research focuses on the globalization of assisted reproductive technologies and its implications for gender relations, family formation, and social stratification.

Cecilia Van Hollen

Cecilia Van Hollen is associate professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, New York. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist, specializing in analyses of global health, international development, reproduction, HIV/AIDS, and gender in South Asia. She is the author of Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India (Stanford University Press 2013) and Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India (University of California Press 2003). She is currently conducting research on cervical and breast cancer in India.