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Lloyd1996
BibType ARTICLE
Key Lloyd1996
Author(s) Mike Lloyd
Title Condemned to be meaningful: Non-response in studies of men and infertility
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Tag(s) EMCA, Medical EMCA, Research Methods, Infertility, Non-response
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Year 1996
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Journal Sociology of Health & Illness
Volume 18
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Pages 433-454
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DOI 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10939057
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Howpublished
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Abstract

Male infertility has been under-researched, and in part this seems due to a strong reticence by men to talk to researchers about infertility. Rather than suggest possible features of male infertility that might lead to this reticence, this paper explores how researchers have themselves accounted for the high non- response rates. The analysis details the way in which social scientific reasoning about non-response incorporates both existing knowledge about infertility and everyday reasoning about health and illness. It is suggested that this process is a variant of a pervasive form of commonsense reasoning - the documentary method of interpretation. The interesting upshot of applying this method to non-response, is that an absence of information is ‘condemned to be meaningful’.

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