Couples undergoing infertility treatment in the Czech Republic: Broad range of possibilities in a traditional milieu

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Authors

SLEPIČKOVÁ Lenka

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source SOCIAL THEORY & HEALTH
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web https://search.proquest.com/docview/203649126?accountid=16531
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sth.2009.25
Field Sociology, demography
Keywords infertility; assisted reproduction; Czech Republic; adoption
Description Infertility is a defining experience in an individual biography. It disrupts the assumptions and expectations, expecially the assumption of fertility and control over the reproductive powers of body. The paper focuses on the experience of couples with infertility. Its goal is to show how couples handle the problem and which roles are taken when confronted with infertility, within a specific social context. The study is dividend into three parts: in the begining we sum up how partners are affected by constraints lifting access to the methods of assisted reproduction in Czech Republic and how they react to these constraints. In the second part of the text we describe the role sof men and women in resolving infertility. And in the third part, we focus on partner negotiations regarding possible solutions for resolving infertility and how they approach two main solutions in infertility, adoption and assisted reproduction. The analysis is based od the data from more than 30 qualitative, in-depth interview with men and women.
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