Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the United States and Great BritainTransaction Publishers - 293 страница Whatever reproductive choices women make--whether they opt to end a pregnancy through abortion or continue to term and give birth--they are considered to be at risk of suffering serious mental health problems. According to opponents of abortion in the United States, potential injury to women is a major reason why people should consider abortion a problem. On the other hand, becoming a mother can also be considered a big risk. This fine, well-balanced book is about how people represent the results of reproductive choices. It examines how and why pregnancy and its various outcomes have come to be discussed this way. The author's interest in the medicalization of reproduction--its representation as a mental health problem--first arose in relation to abortion. There is a very clear contrast between the construction of women who have abortions, implied by moralized argument against abortion, and the construction that results when the case against abortion focuses on its effects on women's mental health. Lee argues that claims that connect abortion with mental illness have been limited in their influence, but this is not to suggest that they have not become a focus for discussion and have had no impact. The limits to such claims about abortion do not, by any means, suggest limits to the process of the medicalization of pregnancy more broadly, that is, a process of demedicalization. The final theme of Ellie Lee's book is the selective medicalization of reproduction. Centering on the claim that abortion can create a post abortion syndrome, the author examines the "medicalization" of the abortion problem on both sides of the Atlantic. Lee points to contrasts in legal and medical dimensions of the abortion issue that make for some important differences, but argues that in both the United States and Great Britain, the post-abortion-syndrome claim constitutes an example of the limits to medicalization and the return to the theme of motherhood as a psychological ordeal. Lee makes the case for looking to the social dimensions of mental health problems to account for and understand debates about what makes women ill. Ellie Lee is research fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Southampton, Highfield, United Kingdom. |
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... suffering serious mental health problems . Ac- cording to David Reardon , an opponent of abortion in the United States , this is a big reason why people should consider abortion a problem . It " hurts women , " he contends . Yet , on ...
... suffering serious mental health problems . Ac- cording to David Reardon , an opponent of abortion in the United States , this is a big reason why people should consider abortion a problem . It " hurts women , " he contends . Yet , on ...
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... suffering from this illness and needed postabortion counseling as a result . When I first came across these claims , it struck me as interesting that the antiabortion argument had apparently become far less " moralized " than in pre ...
... suffering from this illness and needed postabortion counseling as a result . When I first came across these claims , it struck me as interesting that the antiabortion argument had apparently become far less " moralized " than in pre ...
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... suffer from severe mental health problems after abortion and should be discouraged from having abor- tions because of this has not had the purchase that its proponents hoped for . At the time of writing , it has certainly not led to the ...
... suffer from severe mental health problems after abortion and should be discouraged from having abor- tions because of this has not had the purchase that its proponents hoped for . At the time of writing , it has certainly not led to the ...
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... suffering from syndromes or depressive illnesses , as addicted or as codependent , forms part of a culture in which the ... suffer from such illness are primarily afflicted by a " lack of insight into this process , a deficit that is ...
... suffering from syndromes or depressive illnesses , as addicted or as codependent , forms part of a culture in which the ... suffer from such illness are primarily afflicted by a " lack of insight into this process , a deficit that is ...
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... suffer mental health problems emerges out of this context , there is another dynamic , which I con- sider first in Chapter 3. The turn toward medicalized argument , I argue , also reflects the difficulties of arguing against abortion in ...
... suffer mental health problems emerges out of this context , there is another dynamic , which I con- sider first in Chapter 3. The turn toward medicalized argument , I argue , also reflects the difficulties of arguing against abortion in ...
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The Demoralization of the Antiabortion Argument | 81 |
Debating Postabortion Syndrome | 115 |
Pregnancy and Mental Health in the United States and Britain | 151 |
Motherhood as an Ordeal | 189 |
Reexamining the Issues | 221 |
Notes | 251 |
References | 255 |
Index | 283 |
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