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Comparing Descriptions and Lived Experiences of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7635535
AutoresKaitlyn Vleming (autor de correspondencia)
Año1969
Volumen60
Número2
Páginas507-522
Fecha de publicación1969-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropologica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0254-9212 • E-ISSN: 2224-6428
EditorialUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/anth.2017-0043
OpenAlexW2904980761
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas51

This article examines the biomedical diagnosis of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) from the perspectives of medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS), addressing two main questions: what does a historical, medical anthropology and STS perspective reveal about how PCOS is described and understood in contemporary North America, and what are the lived experiences of people with this diagnosis? Common descriptions of PCOS are based in normative gendered assumptions. Drawing on interviews with people diagnosed with PCOS and on analysis of historical and contemporary biomedical literature discussing PCOS, I argue that the lived experiences of people with PCOS vary significantly from mainstream (biomedical and popular) descriptions of the diagnosis

Art · Epistemology · Lived experience · Mainstream · Medical anthropology · Normative · Pathology · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Polycystic ovary · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Medicine · Ovarian function and disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies