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Contraceptive medicalisation, fear of infertility and teenage pregnancy in Brazil.
Gonçalves, Helen; Souza, Ana D; Tavares, Patrícia A; Cruz, Suélen H; Béhague, Dominique P.
Afiliação
  • Gonçalves H; Programa de Pós-graduação em Epidemiologia, Departamento de Medicina Social, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil.
Cult Health Sex ; 13(2): 201-15, 2011 Feb.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20972914
In Brazil, as in many other countries, teenage pregnancy is widely recognised as a public health problem. Buttressed by a public health science of the economics of teenage pregnancy that emphasises the postponement of parenthood as key to poverty reduction, young people's lack of appreciation for medical knowledge of contraceptives is most often credited for failed attempts to reduce teenage pregnancy. Based on a longitudinal ethnographic study conducted in Pelotas, Brazil, with young people over the course of 10 years, our study found that young women who became teenage parents did not lack medical knowledge but were, rather, highly medicalised. Not only were they intensely concerned with the ill-effects of oral contraceptives on possible future fertility, they also engaged in intricate routines of contraceptive-use as a way of testing and safeguarding their fecundity. Our analysis attends to the way these practices are shaped by the problematisation of the economics of teenage pregnancy, as well as by the gendering of cultural norms relating to the transition to adulthood. We theorise the results by considering how contraceptive medicalisation enabled some women to engage with the authority of normative society, while developing a potent off-stage critique of this authority and of what they considered to be discriminatory messages imbedded in scientific discourses on teenage pregnancy.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Gravidez na Adolescência / Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde / Comportamento do Adolescente / Comportamento Contraceptivo / Infertilidade Feminina Tipo de estudo: Etiology_studies / Incidence_studies / Observational_studies / Qualitative_research / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Pregnancy País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Cult Health Sex Assunto da revista: CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO / CIENCIAS SOCIAIS Ano de publicação: 2011 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Gravidez na Adolescência / Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde / Comportamento do Adolescente / Comportamento Contraceptivo / Infertilidade Feminina Tipo de estudo: Etiology_studies / Incidence_studies / Observational_studies / Qualitative_research / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Pregnancy País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Cult Health Sex Assunto da revista: CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO / CIENCIAS SOCIAIS Ano de publicação: 2011 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido