Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Conceptualization of Ageing in India

Through a mapping of field data collected from two parts India: Hisar in North India and Hyderabad South India, this paper looks at the ways which reproductive decline ageing have become part discourse on assisted reproduction India. The importance different clinics regional spaces highlights certain shared distinct conflicts. thematic discussions research findings place privileging temporalities an ambivalent relationship with chronological decline. linkages between infertility/fertility are more marked infertility clinic wherein diagnostic protocols treatment towards achieving parenthood evaluated through prism social moral judgements. Rural-urban differences, gendered expectations familial roles rules, lived environments lifestyles huge impact use dissemination technologies In paper, surrounding fertility, children, family clinical administration technologies; carry important implications for age-related markers status role.