Kate Seear

Journe d'tudes ENDOMTRIOSE ET INGALITS Expriences, expertises et problme

Since its ‘discovery’ some 150 years ago, thinking about endometriosis has changed. With current estimates identifying it as more common than breast and ovarian cancer, this chronic, incurable gynaecological condition has emerged as a ‘mode…

This paper examines the phenomenon of non-compliance with health advice among 20 women who have been diagnosed with a chronic and incurable gynaecological condition called endometriosis. Non-compliance with health advice has been identified…

There have been several studies exploring the role public institutions, especially the media, play in the dissemination of information about health risks. To date, scholars have neglected the role that health self-help literature plays in r…

AbstractThis paper explores the experiences of twenty Australian women living with the chronic and incurable gynaecological condition endometriosis. It examines how women become experts in their own care and the ramifications of these proce…

Endometriosis is a chronic gynaecological condition. There is little scientific consensus about what causes the disease or how it should be treated. In the absence of medical certainty about the condition many women seek to manage it themse…