Beyond (financial) accessibility: inequalities within the medicalisation of infertility
dc.contributor.author | Bell, Ann V. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-13T19:37:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-13T19:37:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-05 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Bell, Ann V.; (2010). "Beyond (financial) accessibility: inequalities within the medicalisation of infertility." Sociology of Health & Illness 32(4): 631-646. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78596> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0141-9889 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1467-9566 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78596 | |
dc.description.abstract | There is a significant class disparity within the provision of medical treatments for infertility in the United States. Common explanations attribute this inequality to financial inaccessibility due to sparse insurance coverage and exorbitant costs. However, little is known as to why disparities still exist without the presence of such constraints, such as in states with comprehensive insurance coverage of infertility treatments. Drawing on in-depth interviews with women of low socioeconomic status (SES), this paper aims to explore the structural and political barriers to receiving medical care for infertility within the United States context. The paper argues that much of the invisible, unidentified treatment disparities of infertility stem from the social control mechanism of medicalisation. Medicalisation perpetuates the stratified system of reproduction through its structural inaccessibility and the institutionalised classism apparent within medicine’s reproductive health practices and policies. The women in this study, however, actively and creatively identified ways to overcome the reproductive limits with which they were faced. In doing so, their solutions served both to accept and reject dominant norms of motherhood and medicine. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 165356 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 3106 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Infertility | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Medicalisation | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Class | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Inequalities | en_US |
dc.title | Beyond (financial) accessibility: inequalities within the medicalisation of infertility | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Family Medicine and Primary Care | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 20163560 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78596/1/j.1467-9566.2009.01235.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01235.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Sociology of Health & Illness | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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