| Unexplained Infertility Diagnosed | | | | aims to find medical treatments for diagnosed |
| Getting pregnant and staying pregnant can consume | | | | symptoms and syndromes and treats the human |
| your whole life when you really want to have your | | | | body as a very complex mechanism. The medical |
| own baby now. In spite of the fact that each of us | | | | model emphasises anatomical, physiological and |
| comes from a very long line of successful | | | | biochemical malfunction as the causes of ill health and |
| pregnancies, many women today are finding it | | | | by doing so encourages a disease-orientated |
| difficult to conceive or enjoy a pregnancy until the | | | | approach to the patient (Jefferey). |
| safe birth or their baby. | | | | Why Is Unexplained Infertility Unexplained? |
| Indeed, according to Hart (2003) in the British Medical | | | | The medical model, while very useful, is just not |
| Journal, up to 25% of patients who present for | | | | adequate for understanding what is really happening |
| investigation in a reproductive medicine clinic are | | | | for couples who are experiencing challenges |
| diagnosed with unexplained infertility (UI). He explains | | | | becoming pregnant or seeing a healthy pregnancy |
| that UI is a diagnosis of exclusion. When no other | | | | through to a full term birth without any obvious |
| reason for not being able to become pregnant or | | | | physical, anatomical or biochemical cause. |
| stay pregnant can be found, unexplained infertility is | | | | The truth is that the reason why unexplained |
| the diagnosis one receives. | | | | infertility is unexplained is because the causes lie |
| Webster's dictionary defines 'Unexplained' as (1) not | | | | beyond the scope of the medical model. But instead |
| explained or (2) having the reason or cause not made | | | | of saying ´we don't know or understand why |
| clear. So a diagnosis of unexplained infertility just | | | | you are not conceiving or keeping your baby until full |
| means that the the' why' you are not getting | | | | term´, men and women trying to get |
| pregnant or staying pregnant is not clear. Not clear, | | | | pregnant and stay pregnant are handed this diagnosis. |
| that is, to the people you are asking (in this instance | | | | Could there be a cause or explanation that standard |
| medical doctors). Not clear within the framework | | | | or even specialized medical or surgical procedures and |
| they are using. Not clear, then, through the lens of | | | | test are just not able to detect? Of course. Is there |
| the medical model. | | | | another way to explain unexplained infertility? |
| Unexplained Infertility and the Medical Model | | | | Absolutely yes. |
| The medical model is an approach to pathology that | | | | |