Autonomy in Austerity Times. Examining Hormonal Contraceptive Implants in Argentina

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ID4564475
AuthorsCecilia Rustoyburu (0000-0002-8904-1620, CONICET, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina, corresponding author), Lucía Ariza (0000-0002-7587-7021, CONICET, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Year2022
Volume41
Issue6-7
Pages747-761
Publication date2022-10-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2022.2098491
PMID35819822
OpenAlexW4285077249
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited37

We present findings from a study on the implementation of hormonal contraceptive implants during the last wave of austerity measures in Argentina (2015-2019). Through the lens of "reproductive governance," we discuss continuities and changes in policy discourse that justified the provision of implants from 2014, before austerity measures started to be implemented, and after 2015. Using the concept of "stratified reproduction" in the light of demographic anxiety about teenage pregnancies, we also observe the key role of health professionals in actually enacting in the clinic key policy changes that characterized pregnancy among low-income, young, low-adherence and/or disabled women as a problem to be eradicated

Anxiety · Austerity · Autonomy · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Reproductive health · Medicine · Religion and Society in Latin America · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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