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Toxic Disruptions - Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India (Hardcover)
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Toxic Disruptions - Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India (Hardcover)
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This book provides a unique ethnographic account of women living
with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in India. It examines how
contaminated environments and political-economic changes render
urban middle-class women in India vulnerable to PCOS, a condition
which has the potential to disrupt conventional, normative feminine
biographies of marriage and childbearing. The volume revolves
around two main themes: how toxic landscapes, the endocrine
disrupting chemicals suffusing them, and the political-economic
environments related to them are linked to endocrine disorders such
as PCOS; and how the biosocial disruptions caused by PCOS are both
affecting women and reflective of changes in contemporary urban
India. The author draws on anthropological fieldwork to investigate
these connections through a fresh approach, combining a political
ecological framework with perspectives from the anthropology of
toxic exposures and health-environment systems. The first of its
kind, this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers
of anthropology, particularly medical anthropology, medical
sociology, human geography, science and technology studies, medical
humanities, health-environment systems, endocrine disorders, public
health, and South Asian studies.
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