TY - JOUR T1 - Clinicians should consider the effect of bodily metaphors when discussing contraceptive options JF - Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care JO - J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care SP - 152 LP - 152 DO - 10.1136/jfprhc-2012-100561 VL - 39 IS - 2 AU - Susan Walker Y1 - 2013/04/01 UR - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/39/2/152.2.abstract N2 - The way in which women imagine their own bodies, and the metaphors upon which they draw, may affect their attitudes towards and willingness to use certain methods of contraception. Biomedical science draws upon an implicitly mechanistic metaphor, which views the human body as a complex machine with purely utilitarian functions.1 This … ER -