McQuillan J

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2010-2020

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  • infertility 2
2020
Exploring Experiences with Sterilization among Nulliparous Women.
Women's reproductive health (Philadelphia, Pa.) ·doi:10.1080/23293691.2019.1690306

Although nulliparous women who are sterilized appear voluntarily "childfree," the majority report non-contraceptive reasons for their surgical procedure. Using an analytical subsample of the National Survey of Fertility Barriers, we examine…

2018
'Just because a doctor says something, doesn't mean that [it] will happen': self-perception as having a Fertility Problem among Infertility Patients.
Sociology of health & illness ·doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12657

Only some individuals who have the medically defined condition 'infertility' adopt a self-definition as having a fertility problem, which has implications for social and behavioural responses, yet there is no clear consensus on why some peo…

2010
"Trying" times: Medicalization, intent, and ambiguity in the definition of infertility.
Medical anthropology quarterly ·doi:10.1111/j.1548-1387.2010.01094.x

Researchers studying infertility from the perspective of anthropology and other the social sciences seldom examine the assumptions embedded in the biomedical definition of infertility. Implicit in the biomedical definition is the assumption…