‘At the hospital I learnt the truth’: diagnosing male infertility in rural Malawi
This paper by Fiona Parrott examines how men's reproductive bodies are problematised in rural northern Malawi as access to biomedically defined diagnoses of the health of men's sperm contribute to the visibility of male infertility
Ethnographic research with infertile and fertile men explored pathways into the sexual health and fertility services offered in district hospitals, men's clinical engagements and masculine imaginaries.
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‘At the hospital I learnt the truth’: diagnosing male infertility in rural
Malawi
Fiona R. Parrott
Anthropology & Medicine
Vol. 21, Iss. 2, 2014
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