Full Description
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.
Contents
Aknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Theorizing Endometriosis
Chapter 2: Historical Notions of Menstruation and the Diagnostic Category of Endometriosis
Chapter 3: The Search for a Unitary Endometriosis Label
Chapter 4: Enacting Endometriosis in the Gynecology Clinic
Chapter 5: Disciplinary Power in the Gynecology Clinic
Chapter 6: Stigma, Gender, and Endometriosis
Chapter 7: Adapting to the Failed Body
Chapter 8: Endometriosis and Advocacy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
