Ruby Bhardwaj
Biographic Data
| ID | 1380486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruby Bhardwaj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruby |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhardwaj |
| SIGNATURE | BHARDWAJ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2995-7394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Labor of Care and Contracts: A Study of Surrogacy after the Transnational Ban in India
Characterized by the interplay of care and contracts, surrogacy is an exclusive form of gendered work. The paper is based on a micro-level ethnographic study exploring the lived and embodied challenges of commercial gestational surrogates in Gujarat, India, who were undertaking surrogacy work after the ban on transnational surrogacy. The experiential accounts collected through in-depth, face-to-face interviews bear the challenges, stigma, and sha…
Contestations, Contradictions, and Co-optations of Naturopathy and Biomedicine: A Study Based in Delhi
The introduction of naturopathy in India can be traced back to the colonial period when it was fielded in resistance to the growing prominence of biomedicine. Reporting the findings of an empirical study conducted in two naturopathy centers in Delhi, this article explores its contradictions, contestations, and co-optations with biomedicine. It argues that biomedicine conditions the proliferation of yoga and naturopathy through its shortcomings an…
IVF in a pro-natalist culture: Experiential accounts of Indian women
Risk, causation and containment of Covid-19 pandemic in India: A Sociological Interpretation
Pandemics have a collective character. They compel us to reflect upon our collective norms, values and behaviour forcing us to abandon, alter and renew our collective 'normal'. The paper cogitates the implications of Covid-19 in India through a multi-disciplinary perspective. The boundaries between biology and culture, self and the other, individual and the collective stand reconfigured in the wake of the epidemic. The analysis of emergent infect…
A. M. Shah (1931–2020): The Relentless Scholar
Reinterpreting epistemologies: An exploratory study of the ova donation websites in Delhi
Sociological Inroads into Medicine: A Tribute to Aneeta A. Minocha (1943–2007)
Risk, causation and containment of Covid-19 pandemic in India: A Sociological Interpretation
Pandemics have a collective character. They compel us to reflect upon our collective norms, values and behaviour forcing us to abandon, alter and renew our collective 'normal'. The paper cogitates the implications of Covid-19 in India through a multi-disciplinary perspective. The boundaries between biology and culture, self and the other, individual and the collective stand reconfigured in the wake of the epidemic. The analysis of emergent infect…
Reinterpreting epistemologies: An exploratory study of the ova donation websites in Delhi
Sociological Inroads into Medicine: A Tribute to Aneeta A. Minocha (1943–2007)
A. M. Shah (1931–2020): The Relentless Scholar
Reinterpreting epistemologies: An exploratory study of the ova donation websites in Delhi
Contestations, Contradictions, and Co-optations of Naturopathy and Biomedicine: A Study Based in Delhi
The introduction of naturopathy in India can be traced back to the colonial period when it was fielded in resistance to the growing prominence of biomedicine. Reporting the findings of an empirical study conducted in two naturopathy centers in Delhi, this article explores its contradictions, contestations, and co-optations with biomedicine. It argues that biomedicine conditions the proliferation of yoga and naturopathy through its shortcomings an…
IVF in a pro-natalist culture: Experiential accounts of Indian women
Risk, causation and containment of Covid-19 pandemic in India: A Sociological Interpretation
Pandemics have a collective character. They compel us to reflect upon our collective norms, values and behaviour forcing us to abandon, alter and renew our collective 'normal'. The paper cogitates the implications of Covid-19 in India through a multi-disciplinary perspective. The boundaries between biology and culture, self and the other, individual and the collective stand reconfigured in the wake of the epidemic. The analysis of emergent infect…
Labor of Care and Contracts: A Study of Surrogacy after the Transnational Ban in India
Characterized by the interplay of care and contracts, surrogacy is an exclusive form of gendered work. The paper is based on a micro-level ethnographic study exploring the lived and embodied challenges of commercial gestational surrogates in Gujarat, India, who were undertaking surrogacy work after the ban on transnational surrogacy. The experiential accounts collected through in-depth, face-to-face interviews bear the challenges, stigma, and sha…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (4 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Law (2 works)