Psycho-Medical Discourse in South African Research on Teenage Pregnancy

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Title:	Psycho-Medical Discourse in South African Research on Teenage Pregnancy
Authors:	Macleod, Catriona Durrheim, Kevin
Year:	2003
Periodical:	Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Issue:	51
Pages:	74-100
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	psychological research youth medical research pregnancy Bibliography/Research Health and Nutrition Women's Issues Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Cultural Roles research
External link:	https://muse.jhu.edu/article/48785
Abstract:	The authors are not concerned with the question of the consequences or causes of teenage pregnancy in South Africa. Rather, they examine scientific discourse itself, analysing the ways in which this discourse medicalizes and psychologizes the sexual and reproductive adolescent, on the basis that these discursive events are not innocent of political effects. To do this they employ a Foucauldian-based discursive analysis of the knowledge of teenage pregnancy produced in South African research and literature. The text analysed in this paper includes published and unpublished research reports and other academic literature on teenage pregnancy in South Africa from 1970 to 1997. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]