Renu Addlakha is currently Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)-supported autonomous research institute, government of India. She presently engaged in research on health, disability, gender and development. Renu did her masters in social work from Delhi University followed by an M.Phil in sociology from the same university. She has a doctorate in sociology from Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her doctoral work focussed on the psychiatric profession in India with a particular focus on gender issues. She has trained in medical anthropology and her areas of specialisation include mental illness and the psychiatric profession, public health systems, bioethics, gender and the family. She has been work on health and disability issues for the past two decades. She has published widely in national and international peer- reviewed journals. Her latest most important publications are Deconstructing mental illness: An ethnography of psychiatry, women and the family (2008 Zubaan Books), Disability and society: A reader (co-edited with Stuart Blume, Patrick J. Devlieger, Osamu Nagase and Myriam Winance (2009) Orient Blackswan). Contemporary perspectives on disability in India: Exploring the linkages between law, gender and experience. Saarbrucken 2011 (Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing and. Disability Studies in India: Global Discourse, Local Realities (2013). New Delhi: Routledge.