What is this Thing Called Hormone Replacement Therapy? Discursive Construction of Medication in Situated Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4701926 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Stephens (0000-0003-1325-3579, School of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand.), R Claire Budge (Mid-Central Health Ltd., Palmerston North, New Zealand.), Jenny Carryer (0000-0001-7304-7385, Massey University and Mid-Central Health, Palmerston North, New Zealand.) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347-359 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/104973202129119937 |
| PMID | 11918100 |
| OpenAlex | W2143008378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 19 |
The use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) involves complex decisions for mid-aged women owing to controversy about the meaning of menopause and uncertainty regarding risks and benefits. Qualitative studies show that women can hold apparently contradictory beliefs, for example, both resisting and relying on medicalization. Focus group data (48 participants) and discourse analysis theorizing were used to investigate the complex discursive field available to women to construct HRT and to explain apparent contradictions. Interpretative repertoires identified in this study (threatening change, natural, biomedical, and drug) support previous findings. It is not contradictory to use different repertoires to achieve different discursive acts. The application of these findings to the development of decision tools that help women to arrive at individually appropriate decisions is discussed
Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Epistemology · Focus group · Medicalization · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Medicine · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Students’ Representations of Menopause and Perimenopause
The Ending of Menstruation
Menopause
Informing Evidence
Menopause Narratives
Menopause and the virtuous woman
To Have or to Take
Care, choice, complexities
Healthy Living and Keeping Busy
Public Attitudes toward the Use of Psychiatric Medications for Children
Discourse Analysis
Worlds of Illness
Chronic illness and the pursuit of virtue in everyday life
Ambivalence and Attitudes
Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires
Rethinking Methods in Psychology
Constructing the Menopausal Body
Decision-making in the physician-patient encounter
Changing ideas
Women's control and choice regarding HRT
Decision-making and hormone replacement therapy
Making Sense of illness
Accounts of health and illness
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |