'Automatically you become a polygamist': 'Culture' and 'norms' as resources for normalization and managing accountability in talk about responses to infertility

Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 197-217

  De Kok, B C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Culture in interaction; Discourse analysis; Infertility; Malawi

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFERTILITY; MALAWI; MALE; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALAWI; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MARRIAGE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 60749117790     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459308099684     Document Type: Article

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