Healers and Patients Talk

Véronique A. S. Griffith
2019 · doi:10.5771/9781793601889 · W4405545426
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This paper examines patient-provider interactions surrounding endometriosis, exploring how the condition is understood, diagnosed, and has historically been framed as an illness primarily affecting white, cisgendered women.

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Healers and Patients Talk is a 2019 monograph that uses narrative and social-theory perspectives to examine how endometriosis is conceptualized, diagnosed, and experienced in gynecological settings. It develops themes including the theorization of endometriosis, how historical notions of menstruation shape diagnostic categories, efforts to find a unified label for the condition, and how clinic practices enact endometriosis through disciplinary power, stigma, and patient adaptation to bodily “failures.” A key limitation is that the excerpt provides only the table of contents and publication metadata rather than the study’s results, methods, or empirical detail. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it is explicitly structured around multiple chapters on endometriosis theory, diagnosis, stigma, and advocacy.

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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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, um zu prüfen, ob Sie einen Vollzugriff auf diese Publikation haben. Monographie Kein Zugriff Healers and Patients Talk Narratives of a Chronic Gynecological Disease- Autor:innen: - Verlag: - 2019 Publikation durchsuchen Bibliographische Angaben - Auflage - 1/2019 - Copyrightjahr - 2019 - ISBN-Print - 978-1-7936-0187-2 - ISBN-Online - 978-1-7936-0188-9 - Verlag - Lexington, Lanham - Sprache - Englisch - Seiten - 246 - Produkttyp - Monographie Inhaltsverzeichnis KapitelSeiten - Contents Kein Zugriff - Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff - List of Figures Kein Zugriff - Terminology and List of Abbreviations Kein Zugriff - Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 6 - 1. Theorizing Endometriosis Kein Zugriff Seiten 7 - 34 - 2. Historical Notions of Menstruation and the Diagnostic Category of Endometriosis Kein Zugriff Seiten 35 - 56 - 3. The Search for a Unitary Endometriosis Label Kein Zugriff Seiten 57 - 78 - 4. Enacting Endometriosis in the Gynecology Clinic Kein Zugriff Seiten 79 - 102 - 5. Disciplinary Power in the Gynecology Clinic Kein Zugriff Seiten 103 - 130 - 6. Stigma, Gender, and Endometriosis Kein Zugriff Seiten 131 - 154 - 7. Adapting to the Failed Body Kein Zugriff Seiten 155 - 176 - 8. Endometriosis and Advocacy Kein Zugriff Seiten 177 - 202 - Conclusion Kein Zugriff Seiten 203 - 212 - Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 213 - 234 - Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 235 - 244 - About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 245 - 246 Ähnliche Veröffentlichungen aus dem Schwerpunkt "Soziologie allgemein"Monographie Kein Zugriff Frank Schulz-Nieswandt Die genossenschaftliche Form als Krönung der SozialraumentwicklungSammelband Vollzugriff Ulrich Ermann, Ernst Langthaler, Marianne Penker, Markus Schermer Nahrungswelten transformieren

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