TY - JOUR
T1 - Degrees of Medicalization
T2 - The Case of Infertility Health-Seeking
AU - Greil, Arthur L.
AU - Johnson, Katherine M.
AU - Lowry, Michele H.
AU - McQuillan, Julia
AU - Slauson-Blevins, Kathleen S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grant R01-HD044144 “Infertility: Pathways and Psychosocial Outcomes” funded by NICHD (Lynn White and David R. Johnson, Co-PIs).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Midwest Sociological Society.
PY - 2020/4/2
Y1 - 2020/4/2
N2 - We examine responses to infertility among a sample of 2,361 women with infertility from the National Survey of Fertility Barriers. Latent class analysis uncovered seven latent classes of behavioral response which can be arranged in a rough continuum from least medicalized to most medicalized response. We then aggregated these seven categories into three schemas representing various degrees of medicalization. Women in each class combine treatment-seeking, knowledge-seeking, socio-emotional support seeking, and non-medical solution-seeking strategies. Even women pursuing the greatest degree of medicalization in their health-seeking (e.g., fertility treatments, assisted reproduction) made use of a variety of medical and non-medical health-seeking resources.
AB - We examine responses to infertility among a sample of 2,361 women with infertility from the National Survey of Fertility Barriers. Latent class analysis uncovered seven latent classes of behavioral response which can be arranged in a rough continuum from least medicalized to most medicalized response. We then aggregated these seven categories into three schemas representing various degrees of medicalization. Women in each class combine treatment-seeking, knowledge-seeking, socio-emotional support seeking, and non-medical solution-seeking strategies. Even women pursuing the greatest degree of medicalization in their health-seeking (e.g., fertility treatments, assisted reproduction) made use of a variety of medical and non-medical health-seeking resources.
KW - Medical sociology
KW - family
KW - sex and gender
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U2 - 10.1080/00380253.2019.1625731
DO - 10.1080/00380253.2019.1625731
M3 - Article
C2 - 32863442
AN - SCOPUS:85068206258
SN - 0038-0253
VL - 61
SP - 347
EP - 365
JO - Sociological Quarterly
JF - Sociological Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -