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Critical Issues in Reproductive HealthThe Vocabulary of Reproductive Health

Critical Issues in Reproductive Health: The Vocabulary of Reproductive Health [A Bengali speaking acquaintance who volunteers at a health centre for Bangladeshi immigrants in East London likes to tell the following story. She once explained in great detail the mechanics of taking the contraceptive pill to the wife in a couple that had come to the clinic for birth control help. Several weeks later, the couple was back, greatly upset that the wife was pregnant. When my acquaintance asked if the pill taking instructions had been strictly followed, the husband took umbrage at her suspicious questioning and declared that he had been most particular about taking the pill with breakfast every morning for 3 weeks and beginning the cycle again after a gap of 1 week. In other words, he had manfully assumed that my friend’s advice had been meant for him as he was the household head, and that she had been looking at his wife as she spoke only because she was a well-brought up South Asian woman who did not lock eyes with strange men.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Critical Issues in Reproductive HealthThe Vocabulary of Reproductive Health

Part of the The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Book Series (volume 33)
Editors: Kulczycki, Andrzej
Basu, Alaka Malwade
Critical Issues in Reproductive Health — Jul 4, 2013
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
ISBN
978-94-007-6721-8
Pages
21 –34
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-6722-5_2
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Abstract

[A Bengali speaking acquaintance who volunteers at a health centre for Bangladeshi immigrants in East London likes to tell the following story. She once explained in great detail the mechanics of taking the contraceptive pill to the wife in a couple that had come to the clinic for birth control help. Several weeks later, the couple was back, greatly upset that the wife was pregnant. When my acquaintance asked if the pill taking instructions had been strictly followed, the husband took umbrage at her suspicious questioning and declared that he had been most particular about taking the pill with breakfast every morning for 3 weeks and beginning the cycle again after a gap of 1 week. In other words, he had manfully assumed that my friend’s advice had been meant for him as he was the household head, and that she had been looking at his wife as she spoke only because she was a well-brought up South Asian woman who did not lock eyes with strange men.]

Published: Jul 4, 2013

Keywords: Reproductive Health; Vaginal Discharge; South Asian Woman; Heavy Menstrual Bleeding; Reproductive Health Issue

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