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Marketing of Assisted Human Reproduction and the Indian State

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Shree Mulay and Emily Gibson examine the factors responsible for the phenomenal growth of the private fee-for-service health sector in India and the industry related to Assisted Human Reproduction, its negative effect on the public health sector as well as the feeble attempts by the Indian state to regulate this industry, and its implications for women's reproductive rights and health.

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This paper is based on a presentation made at a consultation organized by SAMA, Resource Centre for Women during 16–17 June 2006 on New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies and Women's Lives’ in New Delhi, India. We thank Maya Khankhoje for offering critical comments.

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Mulay, S., Gibson, E. Marketing of Assisted Human Reproduction and the Indian State. Development 49, 84–93 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100311

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