Ann V Bell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3603502 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ann V Bell |
| PRENOMES | Ann V |
| SOBRENOME | Bell |
| ASSINATURA | BELL A V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9163-9672 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 192 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Perceptions of infertility
Demographic studies of significant reproductive outcomes, such as infertility and unintended pregnancy, often use measures of perceived infertility, but there are varied understandings and conceptualizations of perceived infertility across studies. Some researchers appear to assume that perceived infertility is consistent with medically defined infertility and implicitly use it as a proxy for medically defined infertility, whereas other researche…
Menopause
Menopause affects millions of individuals and is a sociologically compelling topic, cross-cutting the subfields of medicine, gender, body, family, and work. Yet to date, little sociological research examines the process. Indeed, menopause is the least studied female reproductive event among pregnancy, childbirth, and menstruation. Thus, in this article, we review the existing social scientific research on menopause in an effort to expose what rem…
Introduction
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Infertility Prevalence, Help-Seeking, and Help Received Since 1995
Beyond knowledge
The sociology of diagnosis
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA
Women's contraceptive use is a central feature of US culture around reproduction as evinced by high usage rates and nationwide public health efforts to further increase its use. Paradoxically, women know little about contraception within its biomedical framing, and successive public health-related educational campaigns have produced only moderate knowledge gains. Drawing on 86 in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of reproductive-age women, w…
Threats to Belonging and Health
The COVID‐19 pandemic, an external stressor with multiple stressful sequelae, has fundamentally changed people's lives over multiple years. In this article, we first review research demonstrating that the pandemic has negatively impacted people's sense of belonging and health over time. Next, we draw upon decades of theoretical and empirical work demonstrating that threats to belonging and mental health problems are highly interrelated, with incr…
Did I Choose a Birth Control Method Yet
In the United States, unintended pregnancy is medicalized, having been labeled a health problem and "treated" with contraception. Scholars find women's access to contraception is simultaneously facilitated and constrained by health care system actors and its structure. Yet, beyond naming these barriers, less research centers women's experiences making contraceptive decisions as they encounter such barriers. Through in-depth, semi-structured inter…
The limitations of patient-centered care
This is what the truth is
Contraception is a vital component of women's reproductive health, but not all women use it consistently and effectively. Many studies explore individual-level barriers to contraceptive use, yet interactional barriers are important to understand since contraception is primarily obtained through provider-patient interactions. Thus, through interviews with 86 women and 51 providers in the United States, we employ a framework of biomedicalization to…
We're a Little Biased
There is a wealth of literature demonstrating the presence of bias throughout the American health care system. Despite acknowledging such presence, however, little is known about how bias functions within medical encounters, particularly how providers grapple with bias in their patient counseling and decision-making. We explore such processes through the case of contraceptive counseling, a highly raced, classed, and gendered context. In-depth int…
Power of Mom”
Taking Baby Steps
Trying to Have your Own First; It's What you Do
I'm Not Really 100% a Woman If I Can't Have a Kid
Despite establishing the gendered construction of infertility, most research on the subject has not examined how individuals with such reproductive difficulty negotiate their own sense of gender. I explore this gap through 58 interviews with women who are medically infertile and involuntarily childless. In studying how women achieve their gender, I reveal the importance of the body to such construction. For the participants, there is not just a m…
Bubble wrapping vs. helping him learn his way”
Researchers deem gender a fundamental organizing principle of parenting. Men and women not only have distinct roles of fathers and mothers, but also perform those roles according to norms of masculinity and femininity. Recently, however, such distinctions are converging. Fathers are no longer the distant male breadwinner of the past; they are now aligned with stereotypically feminine traits of caring, gentleness, and involvement in the “new, nurt…
The gas that fuels the engine
It is well established that the drivers of medicalisation have shifted alongside changes in the institution of medicine. The process of medicalisation is no longer incited by macro processes of institutional prestige or control; rather, individual patients/consumers are pushing the process forward. The present study complicates this neat transition and examines the relationship between structure and agency using the case of assisted reproductive …
The margins of medicalization
Biological Relatives
on our project concerning the history of mammalian developmental biology in the U.K., in partnership with the Generation to Reproduction project at Cambridge.Having moved to Cambridge myself during the completion of Biological Relatives, I have been able to benefit from the unique concentration of "reproductive studies" there in more ways than would be possible to describe adequately here, and it
I don't consider a cup performance; I consider it a test
Researchers have deemed medicalisation a 'gendered' theory, yet the incorporation of men and masculinity in medicalisation literature is sparse. Recently, however, medicalisation scholarship has begun studying men. This burgeoning literature heavily emphasises sexuality and is beginning to focus on medicalised masculinities in which traits associated with masculinity are deemed a health risk. Such research has demonstrated how masculinities shape…
Overcoming (and Maintaining) Reproductive Difference
Providers’ Perceptions of Medical Interpreter Services and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Patients
Patient’s ability to understand and effectively communicate health information facilitates disease prevention, self-management of illness, the adoption of healthy behaviors, and their ability to act on important public health information. However, patients who have limited English proficiency (LEP) are significantly disadvantaged. Previous studies have shown the benefit of medical interpreter services in bridging the health communication gap betw…
There's a higher power, but He gave us a free will
I Think About Oprah
Health information influences an individual's health outcomes. Indeed, researchers have found that communication inequalities contribute to health inequalities. We do not have a clear understanding of why and how the communication disparities exist, however, particularly the social forces behind such differences. The qualitative nature of this article reveals the nuances of health information seeking using the case of infertility. Through 58 in-d…
It's Way out of my League
The cultural construction of motherhood represents women of low socioeconomic status (SES) as excessively fertile, placing them outside of the infertility discourse. Previous research on infertility reinforces poor women's exclusion by focusing on the experiences of women receiving medical treatment, typically women of high SES. In this article, the author explores how 20 poor and working-class women negotiate their experiences of infertility. In…
Beyond (financial) accessibility
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-de…
The margins of medicalization
We're a Little Biased
There is a wealth of literature demonstrating the presence of bias throughout the American health care system. Despite acknowledging such presence, however, little is known about how bias functions within medical encounters, particularly how providers grapple with bias in their patient counseling and decision-making. We explore such processes through the case of contraceptive counseling, a highly raced, classed, and gendered context. In-depth int…
The limitations of patient-centered care
There's a higher power, but He gave us a free will
I Think About Oprah
Health information influences an individual's health outcomes. Indeed, researchers have found that communication inequalities contribute to health inequalities. We do not have a clear understanding of why and how the communication disparities exist, however, particularly the social forces behind such differences. The qualitative nature of this article reveals the nuances of health information seeking using the case of infertility. Through 58 in-d…
I'm Not Really 100% a Woman If I Can't Have a Kid
Despite establishing the gendered construction of infertility, most research on the subject has not examined how individuals with such reproductive difficulty negotiate their own sense of gender. I explore this gap through 58 interviews with women who are medically infertile and involuntarily childless. In studying how women achieve their gender, I reveal the importance of the body to such construction. For the participants, there is not just a m…
Overcoming (and Maintaining) Reproductive Difference
I don't consider a cup performance; I consider it a test
Researchers have deemed medicalisation a 'gendered' theory, yet the incorporation of men and masculinity in medicalisation literature is sparse. Recently, however, medicalisation scholarship has begun studying men. This burgeoning literature heavily emphasises sexuality and is beginning to focus on medicalised masculinities in which traits associated with masculinity are deemed a health risk. Such research has demonstrated how masculinities shape…
This is what the truth is
Contraception is a vital component of women's reproductive health, but not all women use it consistently and effectively. Many studies explore individual-level barriers to contraceptive use, yet interactional barriers are important to understand since contraception is primarily obtained through provider-patient interactions. Thus, through interviews with 86 women and 51 providers in the United States, we employ a framework of biomedicalization to…
Trying to Have your Own First; It's What you Do
Sexual and Drug Risk Behaviors Among Women Who Have Sex With Women
Objectives. We examined risk behaviors of female drug users, comparing those who reported recently having had sex with women (recent WSW), those who reported previously having had sex with women (former WSW), and those who reported never having had sex with women (never WSW). Methods. We used data from the Risk Evaluation and Assessment of Community Health III Study. Adjusted odds for predictors of WSW status were determined via multinomial logis…
The gas that fuels the engine
It is well established that the drivers of medicalisation have shifted alongside changes in the institution of medicine. The process of medicalisation is no longer incited by macro processes of institutional prestige or control; rather, individual patients/consumers are pushing the process forward. The present study complicates this neat transition and examines the relationship between structure and agency using the case of assisted reproductive …
Diagnostic diversity
Research in the area of the sociology of diagnosis has recently expanded. Despite this development, the foundations of the social aspects of diagnoses, including race, class and gender, are relatively unexplored. Understanding such diversity is important, however, as researchers have shown that diagnoses have significant repercussions on the illness experience. This article is an effort to overcome this gap in the literature by examining class di…
Did I Choose a Birth Control Method Yet
In the United States, unintended pregnancy is medicalized, having been labeled a health problem and "treated" with contraception. Scholars find women's access to contraception is simultaneously facilitated and constrained by health care system actors and its structure. Yet, beyond naming these barriers, less research centers women's experiences making contraceptive decisions as they encounter such barriers. Through in-depth, semi-structured inter…
The sociology of diagnosis
Sexual and Drug Risk Behaviors Among Women Who Have Sex With Women
Objectives. We examined risk behaviors of female drug users, comparing those who reported recently having had sex with women (recent WSW), those who reported previously having had sex with women (former WSW), and those who reported never having had sex with women (never WSW). Methods. We used data from the Risk Evaluation and Assessment of Community Health III Study. Adjusted odds for predictors of WSW status were determined via multinomial logis…
It's Way out of my League
The cultural construction of motherhood represents women of low socioeconomic status (SES) as excessively fertile, placing them outside of the infertility discourse. Previous research on infertility reinforces poor women's exclusion by focusing on the experiences of women receiving medical treatment, typically women of high SES. In this article, the author explores how 20 poor and working-class women negotiate their experiences of infertility. In…
Beyond (financial) accessibility
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-de…
Providers’ Perceptions of Medical Interpreter Services and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Patients
Patient’s ability to understand and effectively communicate health information facilitates disease prevention, self-management of illness, the adoption of healthy behaviors, and their ability to act on important public health information. However, patients who have limited English proficiency (LEP) are significantly disadvantaged. Previous studies have shown the benefit of medical interpreter services in bridging the health communication gap betw…
There's a higher power, but He gave us a free will
I Think About Oprah
Health information influences an individual's health outcomes. Indeed, researchers have found that communication inequalities contribute to health inequalities. We do not have a clear understanding of why and how the communication disparities exist, however, particularly the social forces behind such differences. The qualitative nature of this article reveals the nuances of health information seeking using the case of infertility. Through 58 in-d…
Diagnostic diversity
Research in the area of the sociology of diagnosis has recently expanded. Despite this development, the foundations of the social aspects of diagnoses, including race, class and gender, are relatively unexplored. Understanding such diversity is important, however, as researchers have shown that diagnoses have significant repercussions on the illness experience. This article is an effort to overcome this gap in the literature by examining class di…
Overcoming (and Maintaining) Reproductive Difference
The margins of medicalization
Biological Relatives
on our project concerning the history of mammalian developmental biology in the U.K., in partnership with the Generation to Reproduction project at Cambridge.Having moved to Cambridge myself during the completion of Biological Relatives, I have been able to benefit from the unique concentration of "reproductive studies" there in more ways than would be possible to describe adequately here, and it
I don't consider a cup performance; I consider it a test
Researchers have deemed medicalisation a 'gendered' theory, yet the incorporation of men and masculinity in medicalisation literature is sparse. Recently, however, medicalisation scholarship has begun studying men. This burgeoning literature heavily emphasises sexuality and is beginning to focus on medicalised masculinities in which traits associated with masculinity are deemed a health risk. Such research has demonstrated how masculinities shape…
Bubble wrapping vs. helping him learn his way”
Researchers deem gender a fundamental organizing principle of parenting. Men and women not only have distinct roles of fathers and mothers, but also perform those roles according to norms of masculinity and femininity. Recently, however, such distinctions are converging. Fathers are no longer the distant male breadwinner of the past; they are now aligned with stereotypically feminine traits of caring, gentleness, and involvement in the “new, nurt…
The gas that fuels the engine
It is well established that the drivers of medicalisation have shifted alongside changes in the institution of medicine. The process of medicalisation is no longer incited by macro processes of institutional prestige or control; rather, individual patients/consumers are pushing the process forward. The present study complicates this neat transition and examines the relationship between structure and agency using the case of assisted reproductive …
Taking Baby Steps
Trying to Have your Own First; It's What you Do
I'm Not Really 100% a Woman If I Can't Have a Kid
Despite establishing the gendered construction of infertility, most research on the subject has not examined how individuals with such reproductive difficulty negotiate their own sense of gender. I explore this gap through 58 interviews with women who are medically infertile and involuntarily childless. In studying how women achieve their gender, I reveal the importance of the body to such construction. For the participants, there is not just a m…
Power of Mom”
This is what the truth is
Contraception is a vital component of women's reproductive health, but not all women use it consistently and effectively. Many studies explore individual-level barriers to contraceptive use, yet interactional barriers are important to understand since contraception is primarily obtained through provider-patient interactions. Thus, through interviews with 86 women and 51 providers in the United States, we employ a framework of biomedicalization to…
We're a Little Biased
There is a wealth of literature demonstrating the presence of bias throughout the American health care system. Despite acknowledging such presence, however, little is known about how bias functions within medical encounters, particularly how providers grapple with bias in their patient counseling and decision-making. We explore such processes through the case of contraceptive counseling, a highly raced, classed, and gendered context. In-depth int…
Threats to Belonging and Health
The COVID‐19 pandemic, an external stressor with multiple stressful sequelae, has fundamentally changed people's lives over multiple years. In this article, we first review research demonstrating that the pandemic has negatively impacted people's sense of belonging and health over time. Next, we draw upon decades of theoretical and empirical work demonstrating that threats to belonging and mental health problems are highly interrelated, with incr…
Did I Choose a Birth Control Method Yet
In the United States, unintended pregnancy is medicalized, having been labeled a health problem and "treated" with contraception. Scholars find women's access to contraception is simultaneously facilitated and constrained by health care system actors and its structure. Yet, beyond naming these barriers, less research centers women's experiences making contraceptive decisions as they encounter such barriers. Through in-depth, semi-structured inter…
The limitations of patient-centered care
Intersections between culture, contraception, knowledge and the body in the USA
Women's contraceptive use is a central feature of US culture around reproduction as evinced by high usage rates and nationwide public health efforts to further increase its use. Paradoxically, women know little about contraception within its biomedical framing, and successive public health-related educational campaigns have produced only moderate knowledge gains. Drawing on 86 in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of reproductive-age women, w…
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Infertility Prevalence, Help-Seeking, and Help Received Since 1995
Beyond knowledge
Psychology (20 obras) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (19 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Population (15 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Demography (10 obras) · Infertility (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (8 obras)