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CALERO RICARDO, Jorge Luis  e  SANTANA PEREZ, Felipe. The solution to infertility: Representations of a group of males treated for this affection. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2006, vol.17, n.2. ISSN 1561-2953.

This article presents some of the results that were attained by the study about the meanings and repercussion perceived from infertility in males treated for this affection at the National Institute of Endocrinology. 14 in-depth interviews were made among males from infertile couples. The information was recorded, transcribed, coded, triangulated and intepreted according to the qualitative research methodology. It was found that the biological approach characterizing the hegemonic medical model in infertility care reinforces the feeling that the reproductive incapacity is an abnormality or limitation that should be corrected, that the attention of the health care providers is perceived as directed to infertility and not to the couples facing this problem, and the representations manifested by the interviewee on the alternatives of solution are influenced by the age of the couple, the presence or not of the male factor in infertility, and the presence or abscence of children in one of the members of the couple. Among the main alternatives of the hegemonic medical model are the medical and surgical treatments, the assisted-reproduction techniques and the adoption. The resignation and separation of the couple will be in another model.

Palavras-chave : Male identity; gender; infertilility; meanings; alternatives of solution.

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