Contractual Transaction: How Renting a Uterus Makes the Human Body a Commodity in Nepal
<p>The issue of surrogate motherhood has started public debates in Nepal. With surrogacy a child becomes the object of a legal transaction, while the surrogate mother is used, in effect as an incubator, and the hospital declares commissioned parents’ name of a newborn child. The poor women in...
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Tribhuvan University
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology |
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| Online Access: | http://nepjol.info/index.php/DSAJ/article/view/14020 |