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dc.contributor.authorHeinsen, Laura Louise
dc.contributor.authorBruheim, Camilla
dc.contributor.authorAdrian, Stine Willum
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-09T08:43:43Z
dc.date.available2024-01-09T08:43:43Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-12
dc.description.abstractIn present-day Denmark, second-trimester selective abortion has become a regular medical event, which has turned selective abortion care into a routinized task for health staff. In this article, we explore what forms of care practices abortion providers in Danish public hospitals engage in. Using in-depth interviews, medical documents and social media data, we show that at the center of selective abortion care provision is not only securing safe medical outcomes, but moral labor orientated towards achieving a morally manageable medical event, permeating institutionally developed clinical guidelines, relational face-to-face care, and ideologically driven encouragement of parental-fetal attachment through the use of material objects and visibility practices. We propose to view these entangled realms of practices as aiming towards generating what we term “moral bearability”, meaning that selective abortion care is orchestrated in particular ways to make the abortion, and the implied making and handling of death, simultaneously bearable for couples and health staff.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHeinsen, Bruheim, Adrian. Orchestrating Moral Bearability in the Clinical Management of Second-trimester Selective Abortion. Social Science and Medicine. 2023en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2182295
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116306
dc.identifier.issn0277-9536
dc.identifier.issn1873-5347
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/32373
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalSocial Science and Medicine
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleOrchestrating Moral Bearability in the Clinical Management of Second-trimester Selective Abortionen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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