ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2017
Contesting and Differentially Constructing Uncertainty: Negotiations of Contraceptive Use in the Clinical Encounter.
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- The violence of reproductive injustice: Reflections on birth control and its medical epistemics.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- 'That Doesn't Sound Right': A Qualitative Study Exploring the Information Seeking Behaviour of Current Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Users in Australia.The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology · 2025Article
- mHealth technologies for pregnancy prevention: A challenge for patient-centred contraceptive counselling in Dutch general practice.The European journal of general practice · 2024Article
- Approaches in care for people with variations of sex characteristics-focus groups in the European context on the strengths and challenges of multidisciplinary teams.Sexual medicine · 2024Article
- Evaluating Counseling for Choice in Malawi: A Client-Centered Approach to Contraceptive Counseling.Global health, science and practice · 2023Article
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- Attitudes Toward the Copper IUD in Sweden: A Survey Study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2022Article
- Leveraging the Client-Provider Interaction to Address Contraceptive Discontinuation: A Scoping Review of the Evidence That Links Them.Global health, science and practice · 2021Article
- "I talked to a couple of friends that had it": Informal feminized health networks and contraceptive method choices.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Online contraceptive discussion forums: a qualitative study to explore information provision.BMJ sexual & reproductive health · 2021Article
- Uncertainty and certain death: the role of clinical trials in terminal cancer care.Sociology of health & illness · 2020Article
- Talking about male body-based contraceptives: The counseling visit and the feminization of contraception.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Article
- More Than a Physical Burden: Women's Mental and Emotional Work in Preventing Pregnancy.Journal of sex researchArticle
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Abstract
Most women of reproductive age have access to highly effective contraception, and all available methods are associated with side effects. Whether a woman will experience side effects is uncertain, however, which can pose challenges for clinicians who discuss the methods with patients. In this study, we analyze 102 contraceptive counseling visits to understand how clinicians discursively construct knowledge in the context of uncertainty. We find that while some present the uncertainty of side effects in a straightforward, patient-accessible way, others negotiate their predictions by (1) differentially constructing uncertainty, suggesting that positive side effects are likely and negative side effects are unlikely, and (2) contesting uncertainty, presenting the risk of serious side effects as controllable. In the end, these strategies deemphasize consideration of negative side effects in women's contraceptive decision making. Our results demonstrate the importance of elucidating the translation, instantiation, and construction of medical uncertainty both in theory and in practice.
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