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'The truth of our day by day lives': Abortion decision making in rural Thailand
- Source :
- Culture, Health & Sexuality. 4:1-20
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2002.
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Abstract
- Abortion decision making by rural villagers in Thailand must be understood within its broader economic, social and ideological context. Abortion laws are highly restrictive in Thailand, yet abortions remain common. This paper examines rural villagers' normative constructions of the act of abortion and the 'socially embedded morality' they bring to discussions about abortion. The paper is based upon seven focus group discussions with women and men and long-term ethnographic fieldwork in rural north-east Thailand. Vignettes based upon real stories of women stimulated detailed discussion in the focus groups of the circumstances under which abortion is acceptable. The paper first discusses the social construction of abortion in Thailand, definitions of abortion as Buddhist sin and ethnomedical categorizations of the foetus. Then it describes the major themes that emerged from focus group discussions and interviews on abortion decision making. The material conditions of women and men's lives, changing construc...
- Subjects :
- education.field_of_study
Health (social science)
Child rearing
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
Population
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Gender studies
Context (language use)
Abortion
Morality
Focus group
Family planning
embryonic structures
Medicine
Societal attitudes towards abortion
Social science
business
education
reproductive and urinary physiology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14645351 and 13691058
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Culture, Health & Sexuality
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........302953ba2c7ce11fa2455376004bc73b