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Healers and Patients Talk
Narratives of a Chronic Gynecological Disease
- 261 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
About this book
Endometriosis is not a common word. Some people associate it with difficult patients, pain during sex, and infertility. Others link it to stigma, grief, and not being believed by their doctors. In Healers and Patients Talk, Véronique A. S. Griffith provides insight into interactions between patients and health professionals in the clinical setting. Griffith examines the varied and contested enactments of endometriosis, the multiple ways in which people understand and use the term endometriosis, and the complex pathways to the diagnosis. Endometriosis is a label historically bestowed on white, heterosexual, cisgendered career women. Griffith offers ideas as to how such exclusionary practices developed over time.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- Terminology and List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Theorizing Endometriosis
- 2. Historical Notions of Menstruation and the Diagnostic Category of Endometriosis
- 3. The Search for a Unitary Endometriosis Label
- 4. Enacting Endometriosis in the Gynecology Clinic
- 5. Disciplinary Power in the Gynecology Clinic
- 6. Stigma, Gender, and Endometriosis
- 7. Adapting to the Failed Body
- 8. Endometriosis and Advocacy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author