Toxic Disruptions: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Contaminated Landscapes, Endocrine Disruption, and PCOS
	Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
	The Rise of Metabolic Syndrome Disorders
	Economic Liberalization
	Post-Liberalization Sociocultural Transformations
	Contaminated Landscapes
	The Field Site and Methods
	Living amid Toxicity
	Notes
Chapter 2: “A New Normal”: Health Since Economic Liberalization
	PCOS in the Media
	A Lay Epidemiology of PCOS
		Defective Modernization and Stress
		Disruption of the Natural Order
		Balancing the Traditional and the Modern
	The Nutrition Transition
	“A New Normal”
	Health Since Economic Liberalization
	Notes
Chapter 3: “Hormones Play Havoc with Your Body”: Toxic Locations and PCOS
	An Ecosocial Approach
	Early Adolescence and a Hypercompetitive Educational Environment
	Adolescence and Delayed Intervention
	Early Adulthood and “Modern” Identities
	Marriage, Motherhood, and Balancing the “Modern” with the “Indian”
	Structural Burdens and Local Biologies
	Toxic Locations
	Notes
Chapter 4: “Health Is No More a Priority”: PCOS and Clinical Encounters
	Diagnostic Itineraries
		Dermatologists
		Gynecologists
	Therapeutic Itineraries
		Dermatologists
		Gynecologists
		Endocrinologists
		Nutritionists and Dietitians
		Homeopaths
		Vaidya
	Practitioners’ Perspectives on PCOS
		Dietary Shifts
		Lack of Routine
		Stress
		Pollution, Contamination, and Adulteration
	Medical Objectivity and Medical Subjectivity
	Medical Individualism
	The Clinical Encounter and Barriers to Management
	Clinical Encounters with PCOS
	Notes
Chapter 5: “When You Are 17 or 18, It Doesn’t Bother You”: Living with PCOS
	PCOS and Future Health Risks
	PCOS and Presentability
	PCOS and Subfertility
	The Materiality of the Body
	The Plastic Body
	Medical Technology and Medicalized Possibilities
	Embodied Subjectivities and Lived Experiences of PCOS
	Notes
Chapter 6: “Kids Will Be a Bonus”: PCOS and Intimate Modernities
	“It Doesn\'t Really Bother You”
	Negotiating Subfertility
	The Turn to Companionate Marriage
	Pragmatism, Reproduction, and Companionate Marriage
	“Supportive” Partners
	Fertility, Gender Norms, and Middle-Class Distinction Projects
	PCOS, Class, and Intimate Modernities
	Notes
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Toxic Disruptions
	Toxicity, Gender Nonconformity, and PCOS
	The Intoxication of Toxic Locations
	Harm Reduction
	Toxicity and Uncertainty
	PCOS and Toxic Worlding
	Note
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Index