Endometriosis or the "career woman's disease" is a puzzling disease
affecting women in their reproductive years. Research on endometriosis has
focussed on aspects such as the personality characteristics of sufferers and its
correlation with infertility (Venter, 1980). As yet, the experiential world of
endometriosis sufferers and the relationships which are influenced by their
disease have received little attention (Weinstein, 1987).
Furthermore, endometriosis is construed as a physical disorder which is
medically diagnosed and medically treated. As such, the epistemology
surrounding the term "endometriosis" is an adherent to a largely non-contextual,
non-systemic and intrinsically mechanistic biomedical model (Bogdan, 1984;
Schwartz, 1982).
By using an ecosystemic epistemology, this dissertation will attempt to
describe the unique experiential world of the afflicted woman in terms of her
coping strategies in dealing with endometriosis and to formulate a description of
the interactional patterns between herself and significant others directly
influenced by her disease. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/16777 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Ferreira, Marta Anna |
| Contributors | Van den Worm, Y. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (vii, 108 leaves) |
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