Sociology Department, Yale University, P.O. Box 208265, New Haven, CT 06520-8265, United States.
Soc Sci Med. 2017 Sep;188:21-29. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.06.027. Epub 2017 Jun 22.
Women doing in vitro fertilization (IVF) to have a child describe it as painful and emotionally draining. Egg donors undergo the same medical regimen for a different reason - to produce eggs for another woman in exchange for thousands of dollars - and describe it as quick and relatively painless. Medical researchers typically compare bodily responses by variables such as gender, age, and health status. We use the case of "egg production" to propose a new factor that may be an important source of variation in bodily experience: an individual's reason for undergoing the medical intervention in the first place. Using cluster analysis to analyze an original survey of 50 IVF patients and 62 egg donors from the United States, we find two distinct kinds of bodily experiences - "less intense" and "more intense" - and the intensity of one's experience is associated with one's reason for producing eggs: either to become pregnant or to donate them for money.
进行体外受精 (IVF) 以生育孩子的女性形容其过程痛苦且耗费大量精力。卵子捐赠者出于不同的原因——为另一位女性提供卵子以换取数千美元——接受相同的医疗方案，她们形容这个过程快速且相对无痛。医学研究人员通常通过性别、年龄和健康状况等变量来比较身体反应。我们以“卵子生成”为例，提出一个新的因素，它可能是身体体验差异的重要来源：个体接受医疗干预的首要原因。我们使用聚类分析方法，对来自美国的 50 名 IVF 患者和 62 名卵子捐赠者的原始调查数据进行分析，发现了两种不同的身体体验——“不太强烈”和“更强烈”——并且一个人的体验强度与她产生卵子的原因有关：要么是为了怀孕，要么是为了赚钱而捐赠。
