Negotiating the Therapeutic Gap: Prenatal Diagnostics and Termination of Pregnancy in Sri Lanka |
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Authors: | Bob Simpson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, 43 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, UK |
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Abstract: | In Sri Lanka, termination of pregnancy, other than in extreme circumstances, is strictly illegal. Among the public and large
sections of the medical community there is widespread support for some degree of liberalization of the law, particularly where
this relates to serious genetic conditions which can be identified prenatally. Tension emerges out of a publicly maintained
conservatism on issues of abortion on the one hand and a growing disconnection from unregulated practices of termination in
the private sector on the other. Social science approaches have much to contribute when understanding the ‘therapeutic gap’
that opens up and, in particular, the way that local ideas of fate, destiny and how suffering might be ameliorated become
blended with the predictive power of genetic testing. |
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Keywords: | " target="_blank"> Abortion Induced Genetic screening Sri Lanka Bioethics Social sciences |
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