Potential, Risk, and Return in Transnational Indian Gestational Surrogacy

• Autores: Kalindi Vora
• Localización: Current anthropology: A world journal of the sciences of man, ISSN 0011-3204, Nº. Extra 7, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Potentiality and humanness : revisiting the anthropological object in contemporary biomedicine), págs. 97-106
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Based on fieldwork at a transnational surrogacy clinic in India and analysis of assisted reproductive technology (ART) legislation under consideration in the Indian parliament, this paper examines how bodies become potentialized through a combination of technology and networks of social and economic inequality. In this process, the meaning that participants assign to bodies and social relationships mediated by bodies becomes destabilized in a way that allows some surrogates to imagine and work toward a connection to commissioning parents that will offer them long-term benefit. The politics that position the clinic to potentialize the bodies of surrogates�and as a result the relations between participants and their imagined outcomes�occur at a moment of global demand for ARTs. As such, they rely on differentiation of subjects culturally, geographically, and economically. This article examines how the potentializing of women�s bodies as surrogates occurs at the nexus of political, medical, and social influences in one ART clinic and how the resulting social relations are negotiated between participants in the clinic.