Environmental Contaminants and Reproductive Bodies
| Autor: | Lindsay M. Stevens |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Social Psychology
Maternal Health Risk Assessment 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Sex factors Environmental health Health care Humans Medicine Moral responsibility 030212 general & internal medicine 030505 public health business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Environmental Exposure Environmental exposure Reproductive healthcare United States Risk regulation Harm Personal Autonomy Environmental Pollutants Female 0305 other medical science business Risk assessment Risk Reduction Behavior |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 57:471-485 |
| ISSN: | 2150-6000 0022-1465 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0022146516671569 |
| Popis: | Increasingly, leading health organizations recommend that women who are pregnant or considering pregnancy avoid certain toxic chemicals found in our products, homes, and communities in order to protect fetuses from developmental and future harm. In the contemporary United States, women’s maternal bodies have been treated as sites of exceptional risk and individual responsibility. Many studies have examined this phenomenon through the lens of lifestyle behaviors like smoking, drinking, and exercise. However, we know little about how environmental hazards fit into the dominant framework of gendered, individual responsibility for risk regulation. I draw on in-depth interviews with 19 reproductive healthcare providers in the United States to explore how they think about their patients’ exposure to environmental contaminants and sometimes subvert this gendered, individualized responsibility and adopt more collective frames for understanding risk. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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