Demographic Desires : Medicine, Media and Emergency Contraception in India.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran, author.

Series:

Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society.

Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contraception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India makes visible how under neoliberal regimes of 'empowered consumerism' Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) introduced as non-prescription pills in 2005 bring histories of demographic control projects and demographic anxieties into the present.

Contents:

Acknowledgments List of Figures Preface: Population, Polity, and Reproductive Justice in Contemporary India Section A The (neo)logics of Demographics, Liberalization, and Malthusianism Chapter 1 Media, Medicine, and Demographic Desires Chapter 2 Material Conditions and Social Lives of ECPs Interlude I: Locations: Physical and Positional Section B Demographic Histories: Desiring State, Complicit Medicine Chapter 3 Temporal Desires: From ‘ The Emergency’ to Emergency Contraception Chapter 4 Desiring Emergency Contraception: Settling Debates, Creating Markets Interlude II: Locations: Iron! Section C Tracing the Circuit: Regulation, Circulation, Representation, Consumption Chapter 5 Circulation and Regulations: From Pharmacy Floor to State Policy Chapter 6 Representation and Consumption: Advertising Images Bleed into the Everyday Interlude III: Locations: An Ode to Research in India Section D Desires Co-opted: Jaghe Kaha Hein/Where is the space? Chapter 7 Stratified contraception and Overpopulation Narratives Concluding Thoughts: Population Predictions, Climate Crisis, and Unsettling Demographic Desires Bibliography

ISBN:

979-88-8189-401-6

1-9787-6890-7

979-82-16-25369-3

9781978768901

OCLC:

1557722290