1st Edition
Toxic Disruptions Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Contaminated Landscapes, Endocrine Disruption, and PCOS
2 “A New Normal”: Health Since Economic Liberalization
3 “Hormones Play Havoc with Your Body”: Toxic Locations and PCOS
4 “Health Is No More a Priority”: PCOS and Clinical Encounters
5 “When You Are 17 or 18, It Doesn’t Bother You”: Living with PCOS
6 “Kids Will Be a Bonus”: PCOS and Intimate Modernities
7 Conclusion: Toxic Disruptions
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Gauri Pathak is a medical anthropologist and associate professor at the Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research focuses on the interactions between the body and its environment, consumption practices, and processes of globalization in South Asia, especially urban India. A former Homi Bhabha fellow, she is a founding member of the Plastic Lives social science consortium, and her current project, supported by a Carlsberg Young Researcher Fellowship, revolves around ethnographic investigations of human–plastic entanglements and the resulting toxic exposures. Besides her work on plastics and the lived experiences of polycystic ovary syndrome, she has also investigated beauty work and body projects in urban India.
