Mother India. Stories from a Hyderabad Fertility Clinic
Description
After eight years of marriage, Jhuma and her husband, Niladri, have not been able to conceive, and they are becoming desperate. They've decided to travel to Hyderabad, capital of India's medical and pharmaceutical industry and the home of several thriving assisted fertility clinics. This film follows the Indian couple through their clinical and emotional struggle to overcome, as they see it, the "curse" of childlessness. Viewers also meet a feisty female doctor whose fertility clinics are amazingly lucrative, as well as another couple facing their own childbearing dilemma - whether or not surrogate motherhood is morally acceptable, especially when it is performed for large sums of money. Candid and often heartbreaking, this is an intimate portrait of a universal human problem embroiled in a tragic cultural conundrum.
Runtime
56 min
Subjects
- Women (809)
- Reproductive health (95)
- Ethics (196)
- Social psychology (195)
- Fertility clinics (2)
- Genitourinary organs (39)
- Medical care (561)
- Patients (117)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2012
Database
Films on Demand
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