International Surrogacy as Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia - Andrea Whittaker

International Surrogacy as Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia

Buch | Hardcover
250 Seiten
2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9684-6 (ISBN)
175,45 inkl. MwSt
Andrea Whittaker traces the development of international surrogacy industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia. The book offers a nuanced and sympathetic examination of the industry from the perspectives of the people involved in it. 
During the last two decades, a new form of trade in commercial surrogacy grew across Asia. Starting in India, a “disruptive” model of surrogacy offered mass availability, rapid accessibility, and created new demands for surrogacy services from people who could not afford or access surrogacy elsewhere.
 
In International Surrogacy as Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia, Andrea Whittaker traces the development of this industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia. Through a case study of the industry in Thailand, the book offers a nuanced and sympathetic examination of the industry from the perspectives of the people involved in it: surrogates, intended parents, and facilitators. The industry offers intended parents the opportunity to form much desired families, but also creates vulnerabilities for all people involved. These vulnerabilities became evident in cases of trafficking, exploitation, and criminality that emerged in southeast Asia, leading to greater scrutiny on the industry as a whole. Yet the trade continues in new flexible hybrid forms, involving the circulation of reproductive gametes, embryos, surrogates, and ova donors across international borders to circumvent regulations. The book demonstrates the need for new forms of regulation to protect those involved in international surrogacy arrangements.

 Andrea Whittaker is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and convener of anthropology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of several books, including Thai In Vitro: Culture, Gender, and Assistant Reproductive Technologies in Thailand.  

Contents
List of Illustrations                                                                                                                
Preface                                                                                                                                               
Notes on Language and Transliteration
List of Abbreviations                                                                                                             
Introduction                                                                                                                           
Chapter 1. The Growth of Disruptive Commercial Surrogacy in Asia                                  
Chapter 2. Merit and Money: The Moral Economy of Surrogacy                                         
Chapter 3. The Best of Intentions                                                                                         
Chapter 4. Facilitation                                                                                                                       
Chapter 5. Digital Umbilical Cords                                                                                       
Chapter 6. Rotten Trade                                                                                                        
Chapter 7. Baby Gammy                                                                                                       
Chapter 8. New Destinations, New Markets                                                                         
Conclusions: The Future of International Surrogacy                                                             
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Glossary
References
Index
 

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Medical Anthropology
Zusatzinfo 5 b-w, 7 tables
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Histologie / Embryologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-8135-9684-X / 081359684X
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-9684-6 / 9780813596846
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