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Article: Community constructs of involuntary childlessness: sympathy, stigma, and social support.
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
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INTRODUCTION
In recent years, infertility and reproductive impairments have been transformed from invisible phenomena or 'private' problems into social concerns (Scritchfield, 1989: 99). Personal reproductive difficulties have become '... "public problems" -- social problems that become controversies in arenas of public action' (Addelson, 1990: 1). The emergence of controversy can be linked to the social construction of infertility as a problem requiring high technology medical treatments. This social construction is relatively new, arising from the rapid development of and access to technologies which deal with reproductive impairment (Scritchfield, 1989: 111).
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