The institutionalization and "medicalization" of family planning in Tonga / Henry Ivarature.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Ivarature, Henry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

Tonga.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

Tonga.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (18 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Population Journal Vol. 15, no. 2, p. 35-52 15:2<35 15644278

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2000.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This article focuses on the introduction and establishment of family planning in Tonga and argues that family planning has been medicalized. In the process of institutionalizing family planning through the formal medical structure, what has occurred is that women - the focus of this national policy - have had their reproductive and sexual environments medicalized. Also, family planning at the macro level, aside from its clinical and medical objectives, has taken up a regulatory function for the socio-economic and developmental aspirations of the state.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

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