Cecilia Coale Van Hollen is Teaching Professor in the Asian Studies Program and Science, Technology and International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, USA. She is the author of Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India; Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India, and Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality and Health in South India. Her work has been published in journals such as Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Medical Anthropology, and Reproductive Health Matters.Nayantara Sheoran Appleton is Senior Lecturer at the School for Science in Society, Te Herenga Waka
Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the co-editor of Methods, Moments, and Ethnographic Spaces in Asia and working on her first monograph titled Demographic Desires, Mediated Medicine, and Emergency Contraception in India. She has published in Economic and Political Weekly, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology and Medicine, American Anthropologist, Journal of Public Health, amongst others.