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ArticleMedical anthropology

British Pakistani Muslim Masculinity, (In)fertility, and the Clinical Encounter.

Mwenza Blell

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Article in Medical anthropology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mwenza Blella Department of Sociology , University of Cambridge , Cambridge , United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6794-3826
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 209829Wellcome Trust 209829/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The experiences of men facing fertility disruptions are understudied. For British Pakistanis, the impact of infertility is heightened for women because of normative pressures to bear children. But what of men? I present data from in-depth interviews in North East England with infertile British Pakistani Muslims and relevant health professionals. British Pakistani men's level of participation in clinical encounters and responses to diagnoses of male factor infertility must be understood in the context of kinship, the construction of Pakistani ethnicity in the UK, and the subordinated forms of masculinity which accompany this identity.

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MasculinityAnthropology, MedicalEnglandEthnicityFertilityHumansInfertility, MaleMaleMenPakistanReproductive Techniques, Assistedassisted reproductive technologiesBritish Pakistanisethnic minoritiesinfertilitymasculinity

Identifiers

PMID28799805
PMCPMC7613153
OpenAlexW2744661222

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