"Matters of "Conscience
The Politics of Reproductive Healthcare in Poland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2278083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Z Mishtal, Joanna Mishtal (0000-0002-3292-7236, University of Central Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-183 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2009.01053.x |
| PMID | 19562954 |
| OpenAlex | W2167671354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 26 |
The fall of state socialism in Poland in 1989 constituted a critical moment that redefined policies regulating reproductive health and access to care. As the Polish state adopted the discourse and agenda of the Catholic Church in its health policies, reproduction and sexuality became sites of moral governance through the implementation of the Conscience Clause law, which permits healthcare providers to deny medical services citing conscience-based objections. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the effects of the implementation of the conscience clause and argues that the adoption of this law for individual use paved the way for restrictions on reproductive healthcare on a systemic scale. The special status afforded to the church is highly significant for access to health services deemed by the church to be matters of morality. The Polish case raises concerns about the place of women's rights in postsocialism and the nature of Polish democratization
Business · Capitalism · Conscience · Corporate governance · Democracy · Democratization · Health care · Human sexuality · Morality · Political science · Politics · Reproductive health · Sociology · State (computer science · State socialism · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law
Kiedy państwo mnie nie chroni…” – oddolne mobilizacje na rzecz praw reprodukcyjnych a doświadczanie obywatelstwa
Women’s Reproductive Health Rights in Poland. Between a Druggists’ Conscience Clause and Their Legal Duty to Provide Contraceptives
Physicians and Abortion
Medical Aid in Dying
Using strategic litigation for women’s rights
Frozen children and despairing embryos in the ‘new’ post-communist state
Dropping the ball or holding the line? Challenges to abortion laws in the Nordic countries
Hopes, Fears, and Other Grammatical Scarecrows
Between Advanced Medical Technology and Prayer
Le continuum des oppositions à l’avortement
Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs
Politicized Demography and Biomedical Authority in Post-Soviet Russia
Neoliberal reforms and privatisation of reproductive health services in post-socialist Poland
Analytic approaches to the anthropology of the good
The woman is the active agent
Shouldering Death
The Erosion of Rights to Abortion Care in the United States
Irrational non-reproduction? The 'dying nation' and the postsocialist logics of declining motherhood in Poland
Questions of conscience in a confessional state
The Politics of Duplicity
Family, Women, and Employment in Central-Eastern Europe
The Liberal Bind
The Politics of Gender after Socialism
Legal Regulation of Abortion in Poland
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next
Memory and meaning
Feminist Critiques of Liberalism
Gendered Transitions in Eastern Europe
Leave arrangements and childcare services in Central Europe
Gender and the experience of poverty in Eastern Europe and Russia after 1989
Is the East European “underclass” feminized
Public Ideas and Public Policy
Intra-household gender inequality
Family policies and gender in Hungary, Poland, and Romania
Discipline and Punish
Sacrificed for Honor. Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control
Gender Ideology and Infant Abandonment in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Church Attendance and Religious Belief in Postcommunist Societies
Defining Women's Health
Violence, Terror, and The Crisis of The State
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |