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Bezig met laden... Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain (editie 2018)door Abby Norman (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Ask Me About My Uterus recounts science writer Abby Norman's years-long attempt to get doctors to understand that she is ill. Despite having endometriosis and other debilitating chronic pain conditions, medical professionals have repeatedly dismissed her as a "bright and wound tight" hypochondriac. Norman's story will be familiar in kind, if not in severity, to many women. Studies have repeatedly shown that doctors are less likely to believe women's accounts of their symptoms or suffering. I found the book's subtitle slightly misleading. Norman isn't necessarily on A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain (at least, her activist work isn't as sharply in focus here as other elements of her story are). Much of the book focuses on her dysfunctional family life and her legal emancipation at the age of 16, and the ongoing consequences of her relationships with her mentally ill mother and grandmother. I did hope that there would be more discussion of gynaecological health issues in here than there actually was (though I still learned a lot—endometriosis isn't actually associated with fertility issues! It's not actually a disease of the uterine lining and/or menstruation! Cis men have endometriosis! Foetuses have been found to have endometriosis!). Still, a powerful and important read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issues In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly hospitalized in excruciating pain, but the doctors insisted it was a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics. Unable to get out of bed, much less attend class, Norman dropped out of college and embarked on what would become a years-long journey to discover what was wrong with her. It wasn't until she took matters into her own hands--securing a job in a hospital and educating herself over lunchtime reading in the medical library--that she found an accurate diagnosis of endometriosis. In Ask Me About My Uterus, Norman describes what it was like to have her pain dismissed, to be told it was all in her head, only to be taken seriously when she was accompanied by a boyfriend who confirmed that her sexual performance was, indeed, compromised. Putting her own trials into a broader historical, sociocultural, and political context, Norman shows that women's bodies have long been the battleground of a never-ending war for power, control, medical knowledge, and truth. It's time to refute the belief that being a woman is a preexisting condition. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)618.1Technology Medicine and health Gynecology and Pediatrics Gynecology; Diseases of womenLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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