Aditya Bharadwaj
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aditya Bharadwaj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aditya |
| FAMILY NAME | Bharadwaj |
| SIGNATURE | BHARADWAJ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3911-0579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Vulnerable Truths: Research in the Climate of Political Control
Cultivated cure, regenerated affliction
In this think piece, I interrogate the notion of cure in order to address the idea of disease. My intention is to show how emerging biotechnological modalities that cultivate an idea of 'cure as regeneration' dislocate expert knowledge, descriptions of disease, and its representation into contested new terrains. In approaching disease from the vantage point of the 'cultivated cure' I seek to trouble our commonsense view of afflictions. Drawing on…
The Indian IVF saga: A contested history
The politics of conception in India can be traced back to the birth of the world's first test-tube baby in 1978. This article focuses on an incident where scientists and clinicians were involved in a heated contest over ascription of intellectual credit for the birth of the first test-tube baby in India. It traces the controversy surrounding claims and counter-claims within the medical domain that appear to have emerged as a corollary to the rapi…
Badnam Science? The Spectre of the 'Bad' Name and the Politics of Stem Cell Science in India
The range of the implicit meanings of badnam (bad name) stop short of unpacking the complexity underscoring the implied soiling and spoiling of ‘name’: the crucible of reputation, honour, and dignity. What happens when diverse stakeholders working in the burgeoning and high-stakes field of stem cell science in India fear badnami, ignominy (to invoke one possible meaning), in the context of a regulatory flux and fears of rapidly deepening reputati…
Experimental Subjectification: The Pursuit of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in India
Drawing on Foucault's notion of subject formation or subjectification, this article shows how a process of experimental subjectification, a wilful submission and participation in seemingly experimental treatments, produces both empowering and life-affirming experiences as well as a critique of established scientific norms and practices. The article examines processes of experimental subjectification in the narratives of patients pursuing clinical…
Ethic of consensibility, subaltern ethicality: The clinical application of embryonic stem cells in India
Subaltern Biology? Local Biologies, Indian Odysseys, and the Pursuit of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies
As an emerging life form, stem cells are viewed as global biological entities. This extends Margaret Lock's categorization of local biological or local biologies as emerging from debates about menopause, brain death, and organ transplant. I seek to reconceptualize the local, shape-shifting nature of the biological form and the ontological mutations as inherently subaltern. I draw on a multisited ethnography and a spectrum of global publics from m…
Enculturating Cells: The Anthropology, Substance, and Science of Stem Cells
The ongoing enculturation of stem cells with culturally specific meaning in different global locales is receiving critical anthropological attention. As an anthropological subject and cultural object, stem cells continually rearrange practices that range from scientific discourse to political governance. As a unique and dynamic area of research, stem cell science straddles political, economic, and technological as well as ethical and religious di…
Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India
“Public” perceptions of gamete donation: A research review
This paper reviews the literature on “public” perceptions of the practice of gamete (egg and sperm) donation in the treatment of infertility. Despite regular “consultation” exercises in the UK on the manner in which infertility treatments should be regulated, there is little sense of how a range of public groups respond to developments in this area. The key themes from thirty-three articles, chapters and reports are discussed. The review reveals …
Sacred Modernity: Religion, Infertility, And Technoscientific Conception Around The Globe
Sacred Conceptions: Clinical Theodicies, Uncertain Science, And Technologies Of Procreation In India
Why adoption is not an option in India: The Visibility of Infertility, the Secrecy of Donor Insemination, and Other Cultural Complexities
Uncertain risk: Genetic screening for susceptibility to haemochromatosis
The uncertainty associated with new genetic predictive testing for diseases, like genetic haemochromatosis (GH), has problematised the notion of genetic risk. The paper draws on semistructured interviews with clinicians and affected individuals carrying the genetic mutation for haemochromatosis. The paper shows how the clinical notions of risk can become ambiguous, the distinction between risk and susceptibility lost and the two terms used interc…
How some Indian baby makers are made: Media narratives and assisted conception in India
In the closing decades of the 20th century, media and media narratives in India have become powerful rhetorical devices. The journalistic narratives on science in India through the 1980s and the 1990s have tended to oscillate between the 'awe and mistrust' and 'marvel of science' frame, resulting in the creation of genre of popular science journalism that has assumed the form of an 'institutional advertisement'. This 'institutional advertisement'…
Why adoption is not an option in India: The Visibility of Infertility, the Secrecy of Donor Insemination, and Other Cultural Complexities
Enculturating Cells: The Anthropology, Substance, and Science of Stem Cells
The ongoing enculturation of stem cells with culturally specific meaning in different global locales is receiving critical anthropological attention. As an anthropological subject and cultural object, stem cells continually rearrange practices that range from scientific discourse to political governance. As a unique and dynamic area of research, stem cell science straddles political, economic, and technological as well as ethical and religious di…
Experimental Subjectification: The Pursuit of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in India
Drawing on Foucault's notion of subject formation or subjectification, this article shows how a process of experimental subjectification, a wilful submission and participation in seemingly experimental treatments, produces both empowering and life-affirming experiences as well as a critique of established scientific norms and practices. The article examines processes of experimental subjectification in the narratives of patients pursuing clinical…
How some Indian baby makers are made: Media narratives and assisted conception in India
In the closing decades of the 20th century, media and media narratives in India have become powerful rhetorical devices. The journalistic narratives on science in India through the 1980s and the 1990s have tended to oscillate between the 'awe and mistrust' and 'marvel of science' frame, resulting in the creation of genre of popular science journalism that has assumed the form of an 'institutional advertisement'. This 'institutional advertisement'…
Subaltern Biology? Local Biologies, Indian Odysseys, and the Pursuit of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies
As an emerging life form, stem cells are viewed as global biological entities. This extends Margaret Lock's categorization of local biological or local biologies as emerging from debates about menopause, brain death, and organ transplant. I seek to reconceptualize the local, shape-shifting nature of the biological form and the ontological mutations as inherently subaltern. I draw on a multisited ethnography and a spectrum of global publics from m…
The Indian IVF saga: A contested history
The politics of conception in India can be traced back to the birth of the world's first test-tube baby in 1978. This article focuses on an incident where scientists and clinicians were involved in a heated contest over ascription of intellectual credit for the birth of the first test-tube baby in India. It traces the controversy surrounding claims and counter-claims within the medical domain that appear to have emerged as a corollary to the rapi…
Vulnerable Truths: Research in the Climate of Political Control
How some Indian baby makers are made: Media narratives and assisted conception in India
In the closing decades of the 20th century, media and media narratives in India have become powerful rhetorical devices. The journalistic narratives on science in India through the 1980s and the 1990s have tended to oscillate between the 'awe and mistrust' and 'marvel of science' frame, resulting in the creation of genre of popular science journalism that has assumed the form of an 'institutional advertisement'. This 'institutional advertisement'…
Uncertain risk: Genetic screening for susceptibility to haemochromatosis
The uncertainty associated with new genetic predictive testing for diseases, like genetic haemochromatosis (GH), has problematised the notion of genetic risk. The paper draws on semistructured interviews with clinicians and affected individuals carrying the genetic mutation for haemochromatosis. The paper shows how the clinical notions of risk can become ambiguous, the distinction between risk and susceptibility lost and the two terms used interc…
Why adoption is not an option in India: The Visibility of Infertility, the Secrecy of Donor Insemination, and Other Cultural Complexities
Sacred Modernity: Religion, Infertility, And Technoscientific Conception Around The Globe
Sacred Conceptions: Clinical Theodicies, Uncertain Science, And Technologies Of Procreation In India
“Public” perceptions of gamete donation: A research review
This paper reviews the literature on “public” perceptions of the practice of gamete (egg and sperm) donation in the treatment of infertility. Despite regular “consultation” exercises in the UK on the manner in which infertility treatments should be regulated, there is little sense of how a range of public groups respond to developments in this area. The key themes from thirty-three articles, chapters and reports are discussed. The review reveals …
Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India
Enculturating Cells: The Anthropology, Substance, and Science of Stem Cells
The ongoing enculturation of stem cells with culturally specific meaning in different global locales is receiving critical anthropological attention. As an anthropological subject and cultural object, stem cells continually rearrange practices that range from scientific discourse to political governance. As a unique and dynamic area of research, stem cell science straddles political, economic, and technological as well as ethical and religious di…
Ethic of consensibility, subaltern ethicality: The clinical application of embryonic stem cells in India
Subaltern Biology? Local Biologies, Indian Odysseys, and the Pursuit of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies
As an emerging life form, stem cells are viewed as global biological entities. This extends Margaret Lock's categorization of local biological or local biologies as emerging from debates about menopause, brain death, and organ transplant. I seek to reconceptualize the local, shape-shifting nature of the biological form and the ontological mutations as inherently subaltern. I draw on a multisited ethnography and a spectrum of global publics from m…
Experimental Subjectification: The Pursuit of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in India
Drawing on Foucault's notion of subject formation or subjectification, this article shows how a process of experimental subjectification, a wilful submission and participation in seemingly experimental treatments, produces both empowering and life-affirming experiences as well as a critique of established scientific norms and practices. The article examines processes of experimental subjectification in the narratives of patients pursuing clinical…
Badnam Science? The Spectre of the 'Bad' Name and the Politics of Stem Cell Science in India
The range of the implicit meanings of badnam (bad name) stop short of unpacking the complexity underscoring the implied soiling and spoiling of ‘name’: the crucible of reputation, honour, and dignity. What happens when diverse stakeholders working in the burgeoning and high-stakes field of stem cell science in India fear badnami, ignominy (to invoke one possible meaning), in the context of a regulatory flux and fears of rapidly deepening reputati…
The Indian IVF saga: A contested history
The politics of conception in India can be traced back to the birth of the world's first test-tube baby in 1978. This article focuses on an incident where scientists and clinicians were involved in a heated contest over ascription of intellectual credit for the birth of the first test-tube baby in India. It traces the controversy surrounding claims and counter-claims within the medical domain that appear to have emerged as a corollary to the rapi…
Cultivated cure, regenerated affliction
In this think piece, I interrogate the notion of cure in order to address the idea of disease. My intention is to show how emerging biotechnological modalities that cultivate an idea of 'cure as regeneration' dislocate expert knowledge, descriptions of disease, and its representation into contested new terrains. In approaching disease from the vantage point of the 'cultivated cure' I seek to trouble our commonsense view of afflictions. Drawing on…
Vulnerable Truths: Research in the Climate of Political Control
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Biology (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (6 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (6 works)