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Comparing Descriptions and Lived Experiences of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7635535
AutoresKaitlyn Vleming (autor correspondente)
Ano1969
Volume60
Fascículo2
Páginas507-522
Data de publicação1969-12-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropologica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0254-9212 • E-ISSN: 2224-6428
EditoraUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/anth.2017-0043
OpenAlexW2904980761
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas51

This article examines the biomedical diagnosis of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) from the perspectives of medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS), addressing two main questions: what does a historical, medical anthropology and STS perspective reveal about how PCOS is described and understood in contemporary North America, and what are the lived experiences of people with this diagnosis? Common descriptions of PCOS are based in normative gendered assumptions. Drawing on interviews with people diagnosed with PCOS and on analysis of historical and contemporary biomedical literature discussing PCOS, I argue that the lived experiences of people with PCOS vary significantly from mainstream (biomedical and popular) descriptions of the diagnosis

Art · Epistemology · Lived experience · Mainstream · Medical anthropology · Normative · Pathology · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Polycystic ovary · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Medicine · Ovarian function and disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies