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The Uterati

The Uterati

Kimberly Dark
Copyright: © 2012 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 6
ISSN: 2156-1818|EISSN: 2156-180X|EISBN13: 9781466614604|DOI: 10.4018/ijudh.2012100103
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Dark, Kimberly. "The Uterati." IJUDH vol.2, no.4 2012: pp.14-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijudh.2012100103

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Dark, K. (2012). The Uterati. International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH), 2(4), 14-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijudh.2012100103

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Dark, Kimberly. "The Uterati," International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH) 2, no.4: 14-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijudh.2012100103

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Abstract

The Uterati is a 25 minute solo performance script that emerged from an autoethnographic writing process during the time of the authors’ diagnosis and subsequent hysterectomy for uterine fibroid tumors. The script is at once comedic and political as it portrays specific aspects of their autoethnographic research on the body and healthcare, including: (1) Who decides the usefulness of a body part; (2) “Fidelity” to relationship norms and to oneself; and (3) Confrontation with the possibility of death as one delays medical care in order to weigh options.

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