This paper reflects on the social consequences of biotechnological control of population for values and ethics of care within the family household in rural north India. Based on long-term ethnographic research, it illustrates the manner in which social practices intermingle with reproductive choices and new reproductive technologies, leading to a systematic elimination of female foetuses, and thus, imbalanced sex ratios. This technological fashioning of populations, the paper argues, has far-reaching consequences for the institutions of family, marriage and kinship in north India particularly in relation to care circulation within the family-household leading to a shifting local ethics of care.
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Mishra, P. (2021). Reproductive Technologies, Care Crisis and Inter-generational Relations in North India: Towards a Local Ethics of Care. Asian Bioethics Review, 13(1), 91–109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-020-00158-8
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