Understanding culturally motivated requests from Orthodox Jewish women to delay ovulation.
We report here on the cultural reasons motivating some idiosyncratic requests from married Orthodox Jewish women to delay ovulation. Understanding and respecting the patient's individual concerns and religious values, including the complex psychological, sociological and cultural factors that they involve, is part of good medical practice.
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Maimonides Medical Center, Department of Jewish Philosophy, Yeshivah of Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, USA. rgrazi@genesisfertility.com
Richard V
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Grazi
Joel B
JB
Wolowelsky
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007585:Jews / Q000523:psychology*; D007599:Judaism; D008393:Marriage / Q000208:ethnology*; D009042:Motivation; D034445:Ovulation Inhibition / Q000208:ethnology*; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*