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Dear Colleagues,
Please take note of two upcoming events in July organized by the project C4 "Making India a Global Healthcare Destination" at the University of Heidelberg.
"Transnational healthcare in Asia"
Workshop to be held at the Karl Jasper Center, Heidelberg, 4-5 July 2010
Expansion of transnationalism as a form of sustained cross nation-state borders linkages between people, places and institutions has led to numerous and unpredictable social formations and cultural encounters. Notwithstanding a marked increase in academic publications pertaining to the effects of transnationalism in the health field, the light cast in this domain by the social sciences is still diffuse and the corresponding studies are scattered. This workshop aims to partially fill this gap by examining the Asian region at large (Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Japan). It is the third of a series of events, the aim of which is to produce refined collections of essays so as to frame a specific domain of enquiry. The workshop will address the dynamics of transnational healthcare from both empirical and theoretical perspectives, in a variety of domains ranging from ethics to cultural translation, or again from therapeutic innovation to market construction. It is jointly organized and funded by the Cluster of Excellence 'Asia & Europe' in Heidelberg and the French Institute of Pondicherry (Unit 21 CNRS-MAEE).
Contact: Laurent Pordié ([log in to unmask])
Among the participants: Leigh Turner (University of Minnesota), Heng Leng Chee (National Singapore University), Junko Iida (Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Japan), Caroline Wilson (University of Bristol), Audrey Bochaton (IRD, Paris) and Mei Zhan (University of California, Irvine)
Download the programme and individual abstracts. [http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/Documents/Events/20100704_Transnational_Healthcare_programme_abstracts.pdf]
"Reproductive Tourism in India: Ethical and legal Concern"
Panel to be held at the European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Bonn, 29 July 2010
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments such as in-vitro fertilization IVF and surrogate birthing with the assistance of gestational mothers has recently emerged as a rapidly growing reproductive tourism enterprise in India attracting couples from America, Australia, Europe and other continents. ART raises a wide range of issues – medical, social, and ethical such as the changing concept ‘motherhood’ and ‘family’, ‘mother-child bonding’, maternal health and objectification of the surrogate body. There are further concerns about rights of the mother and child and the disparity between the public health infertility services provided to local couples in comparison to the high-tech facilities provided to couples form abroad. This session welcomes theoretical approaches, methodological discussions and application of transdisciplinary knowledge in exploring the medical legal, cultural, moral and ethical challenges involved in the transnational surrogacy process in India.
Contact: Sheela Saravanan ([log in to unmask])
Among the participants: Elly Teman (University of Pennsylvania), Priya Nanda (ICRM, New Delhi), Kalindi Vora (University of California, San Diego) and Usha Rengachary Smerdon (Kansas City, Missouri)
Download the programme and individual abstracts. [http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/Documents/News/Programme_Transnational_Surrogacy_in_India_Bonn.pdf]
This information, and more on the project C4, can be found in detail on the project webpage [http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/c-health-environment/c4.html]. Feel free to visit!
With best regards,
Charlotte Kroll
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Charlotte Kroll
Assistant Coordinator Research Area C "Health and Environment"
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Changing Asymmetries in Cultural Flows".
Karl Jaspers Centre, room 113
Phone: +49 6221 54 4357
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