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0184/2017 - The experience of illness of women with endometriosis: narratives about institutional violence
A experiência de adoecimento de mulheres com endometriose: narrativas sobre violência institucional

Author:

• Paulo Alexandre de Souza São Bento - São Bento, P.A.S - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE DA MULHER, DA CRIANÇA E DO ADOLESCENTE FERNANDES FIGUEIRA - <saobento@iff.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1598-3340

Co-author(s):

• Martha Cristina Nunes Moreira - Moreira, Martha Cristina Nunes - Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescentes Fernandes Figueira - <marthacnmoreira@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7199-3797

Thematic Area:

Saúde e Gênero

Abstract:

This article evokes the centrality occupied by the relational category of gender, to illuminate the women’s life narratives with a chronic disease - endometriosis. The objective is to discuss the meaning of the experience of illness of women with endometriosis in the interface with institutional violence. Based on Bertaux‘s reference, in the Narratives of Life method, 20 were the participants of this research invitedtwo virtual spaces of discussion and encounters about living with endometriosis. The interviews were conducted in person in the circuit RJ, SP and MG. The theoretical approach was supported by authors who deal with the experience of chronic illness as a sociocultural phenomenon, metaphorical readings of the problem and criticism of institutional violence. The results identify situations of gender/institutional violence perpetrated in the various spaces of attention to women. They are expressed through the trivialization of women‘s discourses; in tensions established between users and physicians, the supposed lay knowledge means as an outrage to official biomedical knowledge and, mainly, the difficulty of access to services, leading women to a pilgrimage for care and to submit to forms of assistance not necessarily based best practices.

Keywords:

EndometriosisViolenceGender IdentityWoman’s HealthPublic Health

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São Bento, P.A.S, Moreira, Martha Cristina Nunes. The experience of illness of women with endometriosis: narratives about institutional violence. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/May). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-experience-of-illness-of-women-with-endometriosis-narratives-about-institutional-violence/16230?id=16230



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