We view that as contraceptive failure
Containing the 'multiplicity' of contraception and abortion within Scottish reproductive healthcare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4601049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Siân M Beynon‐jone (0000-0002-6795-7101, University of York, corresponding author), Siân M Beynon-Jone, Siân M Beynon-Jones |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Pages | 105-112 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.12.004 |
| PMID | 23287458 |
| PMCID | PMC3605587 |
| OpenAlex | W2133952483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 25 |
Within contemporary Scottish policy guidance, abortion is routinely configured as evidence of a resolvable problem with the healthcare provision of contraception. This article draws on 42 semi-structured interviews with Scottish health professionals conducted during 2007-2008, in order to explore how, and in what form, realities of contraception/abortion are sustained within abortion practice. In addition to providing empirical insights concerning this sociologically neglected aspect of reproductive healthcare, it demonstrates how a novel conceptual approach could be used to develop existing social scientific analyses of the provision of techniques of fertility prevention. Science and Technology Studies (STS) has highlighted the importance of studying the complex socio-material practices through which realities are enacted (or 'performed'). Mobilising this insight, my analysis illustrates the complex socio-material work required to enact abortion as evidence of a 'problem' with contraception that is resolvable within the healthcare consultation. This work, I argue, renders visible the ontologically 'multiple' (Mol, 2002) nature of contraception/abortion, with important implications for both social science and policy approaches to these techniques of fertility prevention
Abortion · Biology · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Gynecology · Health care · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Reproductive health · Research methodology · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Medicine · Reproductive Health and Contraception
Long-acting reversible contraception
Articulating reproductive justice through reparative justice
Esquiver le stigmate lié à l’avortement
Abortion, emotions, and health provision
The medical consultation as a site for governing abortion
Maintenant j’ai pas honte
The ontology of early labour (and the difficulties of talking about it)
Citizens United, citizens divided
Gestating times
Messengers of Sex
Disciplining Reproduction
Taking Chances
Dilemmas of the Will
Big White Chief’, ‘Pontius Pilate’, and the ‘Plumber’
Timing is everything
The Sexual Politics of Reproduction
Fertility Control and the Medical Profession
Abortion policy and practice in Greece
Resistance and vulnerability to stigmatization in abortion work
Dynamics of stigma in abortion work
Emergency contraception
Local and institutional interpretations of IUDs in southwestern Nigeria
Emergency contraception and morality
Embodied expertise
Technology is Society Made Durable
On Sociology and STS
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Making Modern Mothers
Expecting Motherhood? Stratifying Reproduction in 21st-century Scottish Abortion Practice
Health professionals' attitudes to the deregulation of emergency contraception (or the problem of female sexuality)
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |