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The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India (2025)
Journal Article
Fiks, E. (2025). The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India. Social Science and Medicine, 377, 118150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118150

This ethnographic paper examines how various professionals working within sterilization camps in India engage with everyday ethics. While sterilization in India—and its place within India's population control programme historically entrenched in over... Read More about The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India.

Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India (2023)
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Fiks, E. (2023). Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India. Ethnos, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2243398

This paper explores therapeutic interventions for subfertility as a domain where meanings and boundaries of care and violence are constituted. It centres around a fragment of one Rajasthani woman’s reproductive journey contextualised within marriage... Read More about Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India.

Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India (2023)
Journal Article
Fiks, E. (2023). Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India. Anthropology and Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2022.2152634

Laparoscopic tubal ligation is the most prevalent method of contraception amongst India's rural and urban poor. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan in 2012-2013, this paper investigates how rural women's perceptions of a... Read More about Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India.

Documents that matter: Sterilization paperwork in rural India (2022)
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Lukšaitė, E. (2022). Documents that matter: Sterilization paperwork in rural India. Anthropology Today, 38(5), 9-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12752

Female sterilization, or tubal ligation, is the most prevalent form of contraception in rural India. The paperwork that surrounds this procedure provides an interesting lens to investigate the state, its institutions, and their material conditions. T... Read More about Documents that matter: Sterilization paperwork in rural India.

“I Do Not Have to Hurt My Body Anymore”: Reproductive Chronicity and Sterilization as Ambivalent Care in Rural North India (2022)
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Lukšaitė, E. (2022). “I Do Not Have to Hurt My Body Anymore”: Reproductive Chronicity and Sterilization as Ambivalent Care in Rural North India. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 36(3), 312-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12709

Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan, India, I examine women's narratives of chronic reproductive suffering and the practices they employed to relieve it. Cumulative effects of adverse and ordinary reproductive events and... Read More about “I Do Not Have to Hurt My Body Anymore”: Reproductive Chronicity and Sterilization as Ambivalent Care in Rural North India.

Conceptualising and Teaching Biomedical Uncertainty to Medical Students: an Exploratory Qualitative Study (2022)
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Lukšaitė, E., Fricker, R., McKinley, R., & Dikomitis, L. (2022). Conceptualising and Teaching Biomedical Uncertainty to Medical Students: an Exploratory Qualitative Study. Medical Science Educator, 32, 371–378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01481-x

Introduction Certainty/uncertainty in medicine is a topic of popular debate. This study aims to understand how biomedical uncertainty is conceptualised by academic medical educators and how it is taught in a medical school in the UK. Methods This is... Read More about Conceptualising and Teaching Biomedical Uncertainty to Medical Students: an Exploratory Qualitative Study.

"Everything in India Happens by Jugaad": Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan. (2021)
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Lukšaitė, E. (2021). "Everything in India Happens by Jugaad": Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan. Medical Anthropology, 1 - 15. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.1952575

Since the introduction of a scheme promoting institutional deliveries in India, dai-mas (traditional midwives) have not become obsolete, but remain integral to institutional caregiving in rural areas in ways that are not always recognized. Based on e... Read More about "Everything in India Happens by Jugaad": Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan..

Exploring differences in individual and group judgements in standard setting (2019)
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Yeates, P., Cope, N., Luksaite, E., Hassell, A., & Dikomitis, L. (2019). Exploring differences in individual and group judgements in standard setting. Medical Education, https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13915

Background: Standard setting is critically important to assessment decisions in medical education. Recent research has demonstrated variations between medical schools in the standards set for shared items. Despite the centrality of judgement to crite... Read More about Exploring differences in individual and group judgements in standard setting.