'I really tried': Management of normative issues in accounts of responses to infertility

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1083-1093

  de Kok, Bregje Christina ^a   Widdicombe, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discursive psychology; Health related behaviour; Help seeking; Infertility; Malawi

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INFERTILITY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALAWI; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALAWI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 48949094463     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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