From Reproductive Rights to Responsibilization: Fashioning Liberal Subjects in Mexico City's New Public Sector Abortion Program

• Published in: Medical anthropology quarterly Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 445 - 463
• Main Author: Singer, Elyse Ona
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.12.2017; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Abortion; Abortion, Legal; Adult; Anthropology; Anthropology, Medical; Birth control; Cities; Citizenship; Client relationships; Contraception; Ethnographic research; Female; Females; Frame analysis; Governance; Human rights; Humans; Medical anthropology; Medicine; Mexico; Mexico - ethnology; Patients; Physician patient relationships; Politics; Population policy; Pregnancy; Public Sector; reproductive governance; Reproductive Rights; Responsibility; responsibilization; Self control; Self regulation; Subjectivity; Women; Mexico; Mexico; reproductive governance; responsibilization; human rights

Building on medical anthropology literature that analyzes doctor–patient interactions as a charged site for the production of political subjectivities, I demonstrate how a central feature of Mexico City's new public sector abortion program involves "responsibilization." In accordance...