Mesterséges megtermékenyítési eljárásokkal kapcsolatos attitűdök a fiatal gyermektelen nők körében Magyarországon

Szalma, Ivett

doi:10.18030/socio.hu.2021.1.125

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“…Hungary is a pronatalist society, this we can observe this in the way the public attitudes towards childbearing (only a very small segment of the population thinks of being childless as a good situation) and clearly in the policies and communications of the conservative government (Kapitány and Spéder, 2006;S. Molnár, 1999;Szalma, 2021aSzalma, , 2021b. This attitude towards placing emphasis on biologically related children is explicitly present in our sample, reports were observed about rather not having children at all than having one that is not biologically related to at least one of the parents.…”

Section: Detailed Discussion On Gendered Responsibility In Reproducti...mentioning

confidence: 87%

“…The fact that women are more vocal about the issue is clearly illustrated both by the participants of the online discussion communities and the interviews. Recruiting men for interviews proved at the time impossible (detailed in methods section of the thesis), and similar barriers were reported by Szalma (2021aSzalma ( , 2021b, granting a salient opportunity for further future inquiry. In the analysed texts we could see that the male partners' coping mechanism discussed most was silence, not talking about the problem, bottling up the feelings.…”

Section: The Findings About Gendered Reproductive Burdenmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…As discussed earlier in the theoretical section, different attitudes from society are observed when viewing female and male childlessness, and infertility (the theoretical background of gendered reproductive responsibility can be read in Chapter 3.4. of the dissertation). The international and Hungarian literature (Ettore, 2002;Lindsey, 2017;Szalma, 2021aSzalma, , 2021b; has highlighted that the responsibility and burden is placed foremost on women. Women are those who are perceived as socially responsible for decline in birth-rates, and it seems as they are the ones who carry the responsibility with medically assisted reproduction as well.…”

Section: The Findings About Gendered Reproductive Burdenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nearly all studies (especially qualitative ones) on infertility and medically assisted reproduction struggle with the problem of reaching men (this is argued by several researchers including Locock and Alexander (2006), Reed (2009) and Szalma (2021a;2021b)). It should be the aim of further research in all topics regarding infertility or medically assisted reproduction to somehow encourage the participation of men, to find those questions and perhaps innovative methods that could activate the research participation of men, fathers.…”

Section: Implications For Further Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the Hungarian social scientific community until recently, assisted reproduction was mainly looked at from a demographic, legal or psychological perspective (Cserepes et al, 2013;Kapitány and Spéder, 2019;Keglovics, 2015;Sándor, 2005). More recently there have been sociological projects investigating the public attitudes concerning assisted reproductive technologies, analysing large databases, using statistical analysis (Szalma, 2014;Szalma and Bitó, 2021), or qualitative methods (e.g., , Szalma, 2021a, 2021b. The lived experiences of patients utilizing the technologies were studied in-depth applying several methodologies, guided by multiple theoretical fields by Vicsek and research team, including the author of this doctoral dissertation.…”

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Narrated Experiences of Medically Assisted Reproduction in Hungary - Infertility from a Multimethod Perspective

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The doctoral dissertation is focusing on the biographical disruptions and lived experiences of female patients using medically assisted reproductive technologies in Hungary. In general, the aim of the thesis research is to explore patients’ constructed narratives about infertility and reproduction technologies used in treatment. Further goal is to understand the role of patients’ accumulated knowledge in the form of ‘lay expertise’ has affected interactions with medical professionals and their perceptions of the doctor-patient relationship. Moreover, the inquiry aspired to uncover how the gendered reproductive responsibility of pronatalist Hungary influence participating women’s actualities and experiences. Four research questions were formulated for the investigation, the main findings detailed in the last section of the abstract. The thesis draws on the combination of four distinct theoretical fields. The four approaches the thesis gains inspiration from are the following: (1) science and technology studies (STS) to explore the connection between lay public and complex technologies; (2) medical sociology to trace what factors contribute to the new type of doctor-patient relationship apparent today; (3) gender role theory to engage the fact of gendered reproductive responsibility and genetic burden fuelled by the pronatalist rhetoric and social policy of Hungary; (4) the unique position and effect of online science communication on the aforementioned phenomena and mechanisms. To achieve its goals the exploratory thesis research utilizes a multimethod qualitative approach, relying on both active and passive research methodologies. The methodological design of the project connects online and offline data, its main prong being a netnography of online traces about infertility and medically assisted reproduction appearing in Hungarian public online discussion communities. The other, active strand of inquiry involved 18 qualitative patient, and 12 semi-structured expert interviews, which were used as complementary methodology. Rigorous qualitative thematic analysis guided by the six-step framework and guidelines presented by Braun and Clarke (2006) was applied to all data types. The main findings of the thesis research can be summarized as follows: • • Online conversation can be structured along the lines of four distinct patient pathways, or thirteen main identified themes about infertility and medically assisted reproduction. • • Participants of these online discussion communities are female, and group cohesion can be observed in both the topics and a special patient language used, which aims to soften textbook medical terminology. • Both in the online trace data and the qualitative interviews evidence was found that the patients were not only knowledgeable but have accumulated knowledge that fit the definition of lay expertise. • • The lay expert patients often utilized their knowledge to confront medical professionals, lay expert peers were asked to validate professional diagnoses and recommendations. • • The tensions observed in the doctor-patient relationship can partly be attributed to this accumulation of lay, contextual expertise, but also to the dysfunctions experienced in the public and private branches of the Hungarian health care system. • • Limited trust towards medical professionals was also observed. Patients attributed this declining trust both to the perceived lack of expertise of the professionals and from a behavioural focus, their perceived bad intentions. This observed decline in authority provides further evidence of the shift in the dyad’s interactional change, and orientation towards a form that can be grasped by modern doctor-patient relationship models and not the traditional Parsonian functionalist role-based modelling. • • Women assume most of the genetic responsibility during medically assisted reproduction. Underlying this is partially ideological, embedded in the pronatalist and traditionalist Hungarian society, and partially practical with women having more access to the information flow from professionals and the fertility institutions. • • Contradicting international research findings, while male partners proved to be supportive during the treatment process, they did not take on the role of information seekers but appeared to stay more passive.

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Mesterséges megtermékenyítési eljárásokkal kapcsolatos attitűdök a fiatal gyermektelen nők körében Magyarországon

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