The Resource Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain, Abby Norman
Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain, Abby Norman
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Resource Information
The item Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain, Abby Norman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Mateo County Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9781568585819
- Label
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- Title
- Ask me about my uterus
- Title remainder
- a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
- Statement of responsibility
- Abby Norman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 618.1
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RG483.E53
- LC item number
- N67 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WP 390
- Label
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain, Abby Norman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn993419776
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9781568585819
- Lccn
- 2017043712
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)993419776
- Label
- Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain, Abby Norman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn993419776
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9781568585819
- Lccn
- 2017043712
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)993419776
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