Women’s Perception of Reproductive Illness in Manipur, India | Zendy

Pebam Krishnakumari | Zendy; P. C. Joshi | Zendy; M. C. Arun Kumar | Zendy; Mongjam Meghachandra Singh | Zendy

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Women’s Perception of Reproductive Illness in Manipur, India

Author(s) -

Pebam Krishnakumari,

P. C. Joshi,

M. C. Arun Kumar,

Mongjam Meghachandra Singh

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

advances in library and information science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-4088

pISSN - 2090-4096

DOI - 10.1155/2014/321480

Subject(s) - perception , sociology of health and illness , reproductive health , psychology , illness behavior , reproductive medicine , social psychology , medicine , developmental psychology , psychiatry , pregnancy , health care , environmental health , political science , population , biology , neuroscience , law , genetics

Perception of reproductive illness by the women themselves is important in understanding the women's reproductive health in a particular society. It also indicates the possibility of taking perception as a tool for measuring reproductive illness. Though women do not have a “germ theory” to explain their reproductive illness they have a sense of illness pathology. Reproductive illness perceived by women is related to physical symptoms and situations in a network of meanings and different meanings are socially generated to articulate their experiences

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