1Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
Program Officer (Reading Room), Room to Read, India
Online published on 15 February, 2013.
Infertility although is not a lifethreatening or actually painful medical problem, it can have prolonged psychosocial consequences for the individual as well as the couple. Using data from in-depth interviews with infertile 73 men and 51 women residing in villages in the State of Rajasthan,India, this paper examines the perception on meaning of infertility, causative factors, treatment- seeking behaviour and consequences associated with it. It concludes that an unknown unreproductive trajectory turns infertility into a problem of harassment; physical, social and financial.
Childlessness, Family planning services, India, Infertility, Treatment-seeking behaviour
