Demanding doctorability for abortion on request: a conversation analysis of pre-abortion counselling in public hospitals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Du Toit, Ryan; Macleod, Catriona I

Title: Demanding doctorability for abortion on request: a conversation analysis of pre-abortion counselling in public hospitals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Creator: Du Toit, Ryan
Creator: Macleod, Catriona I
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2024
Date: 2024
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/460985
Identifier: vital:76071
Identifier: https://srh.bmj.com/content/50/4/278.citation-tools
Description: Out-of-school comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) Re-search on abortion counselling generally uses retrospective interviewing regarding providers’ and users’ experiences. In this article we explore how requests for abortion are made and received in real time in (officially non-mandatory) pre-abortion counselling conducted by nurses and counsellors in South African public abortion clinics. To capture turn-by-turn interactions, we recorded, using consecutive sampling, 28 sessions at three abortion clinics in 2017/2018. No researcher was present. Conversation analysis, based on an ethnomethodological paradigm, was used to understand the conversational projects of the sessions and to outline how the provider and user oriented to the request for an abortion as a conversational task.
Format: 6 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health
Relation: du Toit, R. and Macleod, C.I., 2024. Demanding doctorability for abortion on request: a conversation analysis of pre-abortion counselling in public hospitals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health.50:278-284
Relation: BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health volume 50 number 1 1 6 2024 2515-2009
Rights: Publisher
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the BMJ Journals Open Access Statement (https://authors.bmj.com/open-access/)

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