Publication Cover
Medical Anthropology
Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
Volume 40, 2021 - Issue 4
280
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Stem Cell Treatments in India: An Ethnography of Regular Practice

ORCID Icon

References

  • Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE) 2012 Indian Biotechnology: The Road Map to the Next Decade and Beyond. New Delhi and Bangalore, India: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and ABLE.
  • Baru, R.V. 1998 Private Health Care in India: Social Characteristics and Trends. New Delhi, India: Sage.
  • Baru, R.V. 2018 Medical-industrial complex: Trends in corporatization of health services. In Equity and Access: Health Care Studies P. Prasad and A. Jesani, eds., Pp. 75–89. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
  • Bharadwaj, A. 2014 Experimental subjectification: The pursuit of human embryonic stem cells in India. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 79(1):84–107. doi:10.1080/00141844.2013.806947.
  • Bharadwaj, A. 2016 Conceptions: Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India. New Delhi, India: Orient BlackSwan.
  • Blume, S. S. 1992 Insight and Industry. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • Blume, S. S. 2010 The Artificial Ear: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press.
  • Chen, H., and H. Gottweis 2013 Stem cell treatments in China: Re-thinking the patient role in the global bio-economy. Bioethics 27(4):194–207. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01929.x.
  • Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India 2009-2010 Annual Report 2009-2010. New Delhi, India: DBT, Government of India.
  • EuroStemCell 2008-2020 What diseases and conditions can be treated with stem cells? https://www.eurostemcell.org/what-diseases-and-conditions-can-be-treated-stem-cells
  • Fernandes, L. 2006 India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform. Minneapolis, MN and London: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Fisher, J. A. 2007 Coming soon to a physician near you: Medical neoliberalism and pharmaceutical clinical trials. Harvard Health Policy Review 8(1):61–70.
  • Franklin, S. 1997 Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception. London: Routledge.
  • Franklin, S. 2013 Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Ghosh, S. 2014 Equity in the utilisation of health care services in India: Evidence from National Sample Survey. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2(1):29–38. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2014.06.
  • Gieryn, T. F. 2000 A space for place in sociology. Annual Review of Sociology 26(1):463–96. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.463.
  • Glasner, P. 2009 Cellular division: Social and political complexity in Indian stem cell research. New Genetics and Society 28(3):283–96. doi:10.1080/14636770903151976.
  • Gottweis, H., B. Salter, and C. Waldby 2009 The Global Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science: Regenerative Medicine in Transition. London and New York: Palgrave and Macmillan.
  • Gupta, P. J. 2010 Quacks in anorectal practice in India. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics VII(2):125. doi:10.20529/IJME.2010.045.
  • Heitmeyer, C. 2017 Biogovernance beyond the state: The shaping of stem cell therapy by patient organizations in India. Medical Anthropology 36(3):202–16. doi:10.1080/01459740.2016.1264945.
  • Hunter, B. M. 2018 Brokerage in commercialised healthcare systems: A conceptual framework and empirical evidence from Uttar Pradesh. Social Science & Medicine 202:128–35. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.03.004.
  • Indian Council of Medical Research & Department of Biotechnology 2013 National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research. New Delhi, India: ICMR, Government of India.
  • Jasanoff, S. 2004 Ordering knowledge, ordering society. In States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and Social Order S. Jasanoff, ed., Pp. 13–45. London: Routledge.
  • Koenig, B.A. 1988 The technological imperative in medical practice: The social creation of a “routine” treatment. In Biomedicine Examined M. Lock and D. Gordon, eds., Pp. 465–96. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • McMichael, M., and D. Shipworth 2013 The value of social networks in the diffusion of energy-efficient innovations in UK households. Energy Policy 53(C):159–68. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.039.
  • Mukhopadhyay, I. 2013 Universal health coverage: The new face of neoliberalism. Social Change 43(2):177–90. doi:10.1177/0049085713492281.
  • Nagarajan, R. 2018 Healthcare corruption: A consumer’s view. In Healers or Predators S. Nundy and K. Desiraju, eds., Pp. 293–310. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
  • National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) 2018 National Health Accounts Estimates for India (2015-16). New Delhi, India: NHSRC, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
  • NHS 2018 Overview IVF. http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ivf
  • Ong, A. 2010 An analytics of biotechnology and ethics at multiple scales. In Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate A. Ong and N.N Chen, eds., Pp. 1–51. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Patra, P. K., and M. Sleeboom-Faulkner 2009 Bionetworking: Experimental stem cell therapy and patient recruitment in India. Anthropology & Medicine 16(2):147–63. doi:10.1080/13648470902940689.
  • Patra, P. K., and M. Sleeboom-Faulkner 2017 Bionetworking and strategic linking between India and Japan: How clinical stem cell intervention continues despite new regulatory guidelines. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 11(3):353–72.
  • Prasad, A. 2015 Ambivalent journeys of hope: Embryonic stem cell therapy in a clinic in India. Health 19(2):137–53. doi:10.1177/1363459314556906.
  • Prasad, A. 2017 Resituating overseas stem cell therapy. Regenerative Medicine 12(7):743–48. doi:10.2217/rme-2017-0079.
  • Rosemann, A., and N. Chaisinthop 2016 The pluralization of the international: Resistance and alter-standardization in regenerative stem cell medicine. Social Studies of Science 46(1):112–39. doi:10.1177/0306312715619783.
  • Salter, B., Y. Zhou, and S. Datta 2017 Governing new global health-care markets: The case of stem cell treatments. New Political Economy 22(1):76–91. doi:10.1080/13563467.2016.1198757.
  • Sharma, D.C. 2015 Concern over private sector tilt in India’s new health policy. Lancet 385(9965):317. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60103-9.
  • Thompson, C. 2005 Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • Thompson, C. 2013 Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • Tiwari, S.S., S. Raman, and P. Martin 2017 Regenerative medicine in India: Trends and challenges in innovation and regulation. https://www.eurostemcell.org/regenerative-medicine-society/indias-current-development-and-regulation-regenerative-medicine

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.