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Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation

Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Germany and Israel

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Editors:
  1. Sayani Mitra

    1. Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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  2. Silke Schicktanz

    1. Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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  3. Tulsi Patel

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

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  • Offers a scholarly analysis of three major types of ethico-legal regimes concerning surrogacy and gamete donation, i.e. India, Israel and Germany

  • Examines in a comparative and interdisciplinary way how in each of these regimes the ethical, social, legal and cultural issues are entangled

  • Includes multiple contributions on Israel, India and Germany: three prototypical examples of particular ethico-legal regimes concerning assisted reproduction

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Why Compare the Practice and Norms of Surrogacy and Egg Donation? A Brief Overview of a Comparative and Interdisciplinary Journey

    • Sayani Mitra, Silke Schicktanz, Tulsi Patel
    Pages 1-10

  4. A System Under Transition: The Case of India

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Law’s Paradoxes: Governing Surrogacy in India

      • Prabha Kotiswaran
      Pages 127-151

    3. Surrogacy in India: Political and Commercial Framings

      • Sunita Reddy, Tulsi Patel, Malene Tanderup Kristensen, Birgitte Bruun Nielsen
      Pages 153-179

    4. Indian Surrogates: Their Psychological Well-Being and Experiences

      • Nishtha Lamba, Vasanti Jadva
      Pages 181-201

    5. Surrogacy and Social Movements in India: Towards a Collective Conversation

      • Vrinda Marwah, Sarojini Nadimpally
      Pages 203-227

  6. State Supported System: The Case of Israel

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 325-325
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    2. In the Throes of Revolution: Birthing Pangs of Medical Reproduction in Israel and Beyond

      • Carmel Shalev
      Pages 327-349
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About this book

This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation from three socially, legally and culturally distinct countries - India, Israel and Germany. It presents contributions from experts in the field of social and cultural sciences, bioethics, law as well as psychology and provides critical-reflective comparative analysis of the socio-ethical factors shaping surrogacy and egg donation practices across these three countries. This book highlights the importance of a comparative perspective to ‘make sense’ of controversies and transitions in this highly contested area of artificial reproductive technologies. It demonstrates how local developments cannot be isolated from global events and vice versa. Therefore, this volume can be used as a standard reference for anyone seeking to understand surrogacy and egg donation from a macro-perspective in the next decade.

Reviews

“This important edited collection explores regulation, activism, and the framing of and restrictions on third party and cross-border reproduction in three countries known for their strikingly different surrogacy and egg donation regimes. Top scholars drawn from anthropology, bioethics, sociology, and psychology draw our attention to these dynamics in a powerful interdisciplinary comparative end product.” (Charis Thompson, UC Berkeley, USA, and Author of Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies)

“This is the most important book on the ethics of surrogacy and egg donation to be published in recent years and a “must read” for anyone interested in reproductive ethics. Good ethical analysis requires in-depth knowledge of the actual reproductive practices and the application of nuanced and sophisticated ethical reasoning. This book provides both.” (Søren Holm, University of Manchester, UK, former Editor of Journal of Medical Ethics, and now Editor of the journal Clinical Ethics)

“This stimulating volume by leading scholars presents the benefits and insights possible with a comparative approach for studying the rapidly shifting terrain of global assisted reproduction. It offers an essential reading to all those interested in the social, legal and ethical impacts of assisted reproduction.” (Andrea Whittaker, Monash University, Australia, and Editor of Abortion in Asia: Local Dilemmas, Global Politics)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Sayani Mitra, Silke Schicktanz

  • Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Tulsi Patel

About the editors

Sayani Mitra has recently completed her PhD in Social Sciences from University of Goettingen, Germany. Her research interest lies in the field of assisted reproductive technologies, risk studies, political economies, globalization and health care systems, health-care policy. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and is currently working on a monographic book on risks and failures during commercial surrogacy in India. At present, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the University Medical Center Goettingen working on a project on organised patients’ participation in healthcare.


Silke Schicktanz is a professor of Cultural and Ethical studies of Biomedicine at the University Medical Center for Gottingen. She studies and teaches in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics and cultural studies of medicine.   Her   research focuses on cross-cultural bioethics, lay-expert-interaction, and concepts of responsibility and autonomy in various field of modern medicine (dementia, transplantation, genetics etc.). She has authored several peer-reviewed articles, more than 10 volumes and books in these fields.


Tulsi Patel is Professor of Sociology and teaches at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research interests include gender and society, anthropology of reproduction and childbirth, medical sociology, kinship and family, and old age. She has published several articles in national and international journals.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation

  • Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Germany and Israel

  • Editors: Sayani Mitra, Silke Schicktanz, Tulsi Patel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78670-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78669-8Published: 18 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08760-9Published: 26 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78670-4Published: 09 July 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 399

  • Topics: Medical Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Bioethics, Reproductive Medicine

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