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"But Does It Matter?": How Women Respond to New Medical Information About Menstruation
"But Does It Matter?": How Women Respond to New Medical Information About Menstruation
"But Does It Matter?": How Women Respond to New Medical Information About Menstruation

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211153021
ISBN  
9798342713634
DDC  
301
저자명  
Caplan, Zoe.
서명/저자  
But Does It Matter?: How Women Respond to New Medical Information About Menstruation
발행사항  
[Sl] : Indiana University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
147 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.
주기사항  
Advisor: Thoits, Peggy;Pescosolido, Bernice.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약Medical knowledge is constantly changing, yet little is known about how people respond to these changes in everyday life. To address this gap, I conducted 54 semi-structured interviews in which I introduced women to a medical redefinition of menstruation. By this redefinition, vaginal bleeding experienced while on hormonal birth control is considered "withdrawal bleeding" rather than a period. The sample was purposively stratified by educational level (less than a bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree or more) and by parental status (parent, non-parent). I used cultural toolkits theory (Swidler 1986, 2001) as a framework for understanding how respondents navigate medical and experiential knowledge to make sense of the medical redefinition. I found that many women's understandings of menstruation were disrupted by this new information. To make sense of the redefinition, women used two strategies: they engaged with the medical explanation by repeating it and asking questions, and they compared the redefinition to their own experiences of menstruation while on and off hormonal birth control. In my interviews I explicitly asked respondents about the conflict between women's experiential knowledge (women experience symptoms while on hormonal birth control as a period) and medical knowledge (doctors say these are withdrawal symptoms, not a period). I expected respondents to either privilege their experiential knowledge of menstruation or the new medical information. However, I found that most women resolved this conflict by accepting both types of knowledge as valid but limiting their utility to their respective fields, those of medicine and everyday life. These results suggest that lay persons do not automatically accept medical knowledge; instead (as cultural toolkits theory would suggest) medical knowledge becomes part of a repertoire of cultural tools that people use when they are relevant. I propose that relegating the utility of each type of knowledge to its respective field may be a more general cultural strategy of sense-making that lay persons already have in place to deal with changes in expert knowledge in a variety of fields (e.g., computer sciences, mechanics, financial investments).
일반주제명  
Sociology
일반주제명  
Medicine
일반주제명  
Womens studies
일반주제명  
Obstetrics
키워드  
Cultural toolkits
키워드  
Medicalization
키워드  
Menstruation
키워드  
Medical redefinition
키워드  
Hormonal birth control
기타저자  
Indiana University Sociology
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-05B.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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