Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sociocultural aspects of the medicalisation of infertility: a comparative reading of two illness narratives Description An account of the resource This paper is a comparative reading of variations in the medicalisation of infertility caused by sociocultural aspects, in two illness narratives by patients: Elizabeth Katkins Conceivability (2018), a story of navigating a fertility industry with polycystic ovarian syndrome and antiphospholipid syndrome in America and Rohini Rajagopals Whats a Lemon Squeezer Doing in My Vagina (2021), a discussion from India of a growing awareness of medicalisation in treatment of unexplained infertility. For this purpose, it first charts scholarship on illness narratives and medicalisation, noting a historical association. Following this, it shows how infertility, a physiological symptom of reproductive incapacity or failure to show clinical pregnancy, is generally medicalised. This paper reads the texts as showing hitherto unaddressed sociocultural aspects of infertilitys medicalisation. At the same time, drawing from existing sociological and anthropological scholarship, it shows how a reading of sociocultural aspects in medicalised infertility nuances understanding of its medicalisation. This comparative reading attends to sociocultural values and norms within the texts, including pronatalism, fetal personhood, kinship organisation, purity/pollution, individual reliance, sacred duty and so forth. It draws from scholarship on embodiment, rhetorical strategies and the language of medicine. It also shows how a patients non-medicalised, affective history ofdeep sickness caused by the biographical disruption of infertility is not that of apoor historian. In laying out the particularisation of such sociocultural values and norms across America and India, medicalisations migration from its origins to the margins reveals subjectivised, stratified reproduction in infertility illness narratives. This paper is part of a turn in scholarship away from understanding the medicalisation of infertility as naturalised and decontextualised. Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James A.; Warrier M.G.; Benny A.T. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Medical Humanities Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available BMJ Publishing Group Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-012977" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-012977</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85204172592&amp;doi=10.1136%2Fmedhum-2024-012977&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=dbc243ed5bebed70b2cbc4e864266ef3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85204172592&amp;doi=10.1136%2fmedhum-2024-012977&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=dbc243ed5bebed70b2cbc4e864266ef3</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 1468215X; CODEN: MHEUB Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant James A., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Warrier M.G., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Benny A.T., Department of English and Cultural Studies, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India