Utpal Sandesara
Biographic Data
| ID | 536561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Utpal Sandesara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Utpal |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandesara |
| SIGNATURE | SANDESARA U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7054-7864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The narrative governance of life: Morality, melodrama, and the limits of biopower in western Indian efforts against sex selection
Selective abortion of female fetuses is a widespread, illegal, and profoundly consequential form of family planning in contemporary India. In Gujarat state, public health campaigns against the practice rely on narratives exhibiting the hallmarks of melodrama: good-evil binaries, stock characters, emotional provocations, simplistic diagnoses, and inevitable triumphs. As biopolitical truths, such narratives resonate ethically and emotionally for pe…
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy
Amid patriarchal conditions that render one son necessary and multiple daughters burdensome, selective abortion of female fetuses has become pervasive in India. Public responses often cast sex selection as self-evidently ignorant, cruel, and misogynistic - an obvious evil meriting denunciation and eradication. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Gujarat state, this article zooms out from ultrasound and abortion to survey the landscape of biomedi…
Community and Healthcare Perspectives on Implementing Hypertension Interventions for a Multiethnic Safety-Net Population
Engaging community and healthcare informants can ground implementation in the policy, community, healthcare system, clinical, and interpersonal contexts surrounding diverse patients at risk for disparities. Such grounding can reframe inequitable implementation as a multilevel social problem facing communities and healthcare systems, rather than individuals
The narrative governance of life: Morality, melodrama, and the limits of biopower in western Indian efforts against sex selection
Selective abortion of female fetuses is a widespread, illegal, and profoundly consequential form of family planning in contemporary India. In Gujarat state, public health campaigns against the practice rely on narratives exhibiting the hallmarks of melodrama: good-evil binaries, stock characters, emotional provocations, simplistic diagnoses, and inevitable triumphs. As biopolitical truths, such narratives resonate ethically and emotionally for pe…
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy
Amid patriarchal conditions that render one son necessary and multiple daughters burdensome, selective abortion of female fetuses has become pervasive in India. Public responses often cast sex selection as self-evidently ignorant, cruel, and misogynistic - an obvious evil meriting denunciation and eradication. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Gujarat state, this article zooms out from ultrasound and abortion to survey the landscape of biomedi…
Community and Healthcare Perspectives on Implementing Hypertension Interventions for a Multiethnic Safety-Net Population
Engaging community and healthcare informants can ground implementation in the policy, community, healthcare system, clinical, and interpersonal contexts surrounding diverse patients at risk for disparities. Such grounding can reframe inequitable implementation as a multilevel social problem facing communities and healthcare systems, rather than individuals
The narrative governance of life: Morality, melodrama, and the limits of biopower in western Indian efforts against sex selection
Selective abortion of female fetuses is a widespread, illegal, and profoundly consequential form of family planning in contemporary India. In Gujarat state, public health campaigns against the practice rely on narratives exhibiting the hallmarks of melodrama: good-evil binaries, stock characters, emotional provocations, simplistic diagnoses, and inevitable triumphs. As biopolitical truths, such narratives resonate ethically and emotionally for pe…
Striving Against Sonlessness: The Moral Uses of Medical Pluralism in Western Indian Quests for a Boy
Amid patriarchal conditions that render one son necessary and multiple daughters burdensome, selective abortion of female fetuses has become pervasive in India. Public responses often cast sex selection as self-evidently ignorant, cruel, and misogynistic - an obvious evil meriting denunciation and eradication. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Gujarat state, this article zooms out from ultrasound and abortion to survey the landscape of biomedi…
Political science (3 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)