Caught between two worlds: renegotiating the boundary between infertility and fertility: a study of women's experiences with infertility in St. John's, Newfoundland
Bibliographic record
Abstract
One in ten Canadians of childbearing age experience infertility. Often, infertility is discussed in relation to new reproductive technologies and their ability to treat infertility as well as the legal, social and ethical consequences of these technologies for women, children and society. This thesis does not focus on these consequences but rather explores how the experience of infertility impacts on the daily activities of women living in St. John's. Newfoundland. This study examines the diverse ways in which women percieve, experience and make sense of their lives after receiving an infertility diagnosis. A phenomenological approach was used to gain a detailed understanding of the infertility experience from women's perspectives. The findings suggest that women and their partners living in St. John's and rural Newfoundland experience lack of choice and poor access to medical treatments and social support. Also, the impact of infertility stretched beyond the medical aspect by influencing the extended family, social and friendship circles, and work environments. Moreover, it disrupted how the women understood their life cycles and bodies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".