Outliers and Rogue Doctors: Manufacturing “Anxiety” Around Older Mothers in India

Majumdar, Anindita (2022) Outliers and Rogue Doctors: Manufacturing “Anxiety” Around Older Mothers in India. Medical Anthropology, 41 (6-7). pp. 616-629. ISSN 0145-9740

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Abstract

In this article I focus on media narratives on older women bearing and birthing infants through the intervention of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in rural north India. I suggest that their portrayal as “outliers” within popular media narratives is gendered, and connected in particular to: the fear of older women past their reproductive prime becoming pregnant and birthing children through ART; the figure of the “rogue doctor,” or the emergence of counter narratives around ART and its practitioners; and, the effort to quell anxieties around ART use amongst older women through the use of legitimating tropes such as conjugality. © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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IITH Creators:	IITH Creators ORCiD Majumdar, Anindita UNSPECIFIED
Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ageing; assisted conception; biological clock; India; infertility
Subjects:	Arts > Liberal arts
Divisions:	Department of Liberal Arts
Depositing User:	. LibTrainee 2021
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2022 05:15
Last Modified:	15 Oct 2022 05:15
URI:	http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/10955
Publisher URL:	http://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2022.2099275
OA policy:	https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/5849
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