Abstract
This article seeks to address women's (low income group, residing in slum settlements) experiences of'disruptions in the process of seeking infertility treatment at a public hospital in Mumbai. It highlights the links between larger social and cultural norms regarding motherhood and family, on the one hand, and treatment initiation, interactions between women and the medical 'expert' and subsequent treatment decisions, on the other. It emphasises understanding women's experiences of childlessness within their social contexts which, in turn, determine and alter their experiences of 'correction ' of a reproductive 'impairment'. The findings reveal that this attempt at 'correction in turn, leads to a significant loss of women 's agency and control, hence putting them at greater risk to physical and mental health morbidities.
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