期刊
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷 287, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114317
关键词
IVF; Add-on treatment; Hope; Treatment decision-making; United Kingdom
资金
- Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom [108577/Z/15/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [108577/Z/15/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
This article examines the role of hope in the appeal of add-ons in IVF treatments from the perspective of patients. By studying how patients make decisions on treatment and navigate the offer of add-ons, the analysis delves into how hope influences these rationalizations. It shows how patients shape their hope to adapt to the increasing number of available treatment options.
The proliferation and popularity of additional treatments in IVF, also known as add-ons, has generated widespread discussion and controversy in the UK, where concerns have addressed the lack of evidence to support the efficacy and safety of these treatments, their cost, and their connection to a wider context of privatisation of fertility treatment. Drawing on 42 interviews with IVF patients, this article explores the role of hope in the appeal of add-ons from the patient perspective. The analysis is presented in two parts: firstly, we investigate the role of hope in patients' decision-making on treatment, contextualising add-ons in the broader trajectory of their IVF experience; secondly, we examine how patients navigate the offer of add-ons, focusing on the role of hope in how they rationalise their decisions on whether to include them in their fertility treatment. Our analysis shows how patients craft their hope to navigate the increasing number of available options in their quest to find the treatment(s) that will work for them. We suggest that the imperative for patients to explore all options is intensified with the emergence of add-ons, which produces a novel context and version of a hope technology.
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