This book explores regulatory conundrums around adolescent sexual
health, abortion and assisted reproductive technologies in the UK. In
doing so, it seeks to examine the various stages at which women’s
reproductive health comes into contact with government action and
assesses how these legal and policy fields are shaped through the
conceptual lens of policy networks. Transformed expectations of
women’s roles, along with developed biological capabilities and
understandings of gender and sexuality have driven an increasingly
complex politics of sex and reproduction. The book argues that assumed
medial control over these issues is overshadowed by government
calculations of cost-effectiveness. Moreover, decisions on the design
of programmes and levels of access continually reflect traditional
family formation. The outcome is unsurprisingly the marginalisation of
women in publicly funded healthcare, but with a clear further impact
on gender and sex minorities. COVID-19 has disrupted these dynamics
further, altering the manner in which previously inhibited patients
engage with the NHS. As the pandemic recedes it has become more timely
than ever to consider the future of gendered healthcare in the UK, and
to question the likelihood of long term change in the ability of
patients to inform health policy decisions. The book will appeal to
scholars and students of gender and health policy, law and politics,
as well as healthcare practitioners.
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The Politics of Sex and Reproduction
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783031087288
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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