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Wombs for Sale: commercial surrogacy in India and beyond. Couples from all over the world can now hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere.
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Series: Thinking allowed; Series 2015
First transmission date: 2015-03-04
Original broadcast channel: BBC Radio 4
Published: 2015
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Duration: 00:28:00
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Producer: Jayne, Egerton
Presenter: Laurie Taylor
Contributors: Amrita Pande; Michal Nahman; Nigel Dodd; Laurie Taylor
Publisher: BBC Open University
Footage description: Laurie Taylor talks to Amrita Pande, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cape Town, and author of a detailed study into a burgeoning business which has little or no government regulation. She talked to surrogates, their families, clients, doctors and brokers to capture the full mechanics of a labour regime rooted in global gender and economic inequality. They're joined by Michal Nahman, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of the West of England, who has studied reproductive tourism.Also, the transformation of money in the post crisis world. Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, highlights the proliferation of new forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Why has our understanding of money failed to keep pace with these changes?
Production number: PEJ45000223
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