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From: "Ella Tighe" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:36 PM
Subject: PH@Brunel Seminar: MONDAY 13 March - Reproductive Health &
Infertility in Australian Women
Dear Members,
Some of you may be interested in the following free seminar to be held at
Brunel University on 13th March from 1 - 2 pm on reproductive health and
infertility in Australian women - those wishing to attend should confirm by
emailing [log in to unmask]
Professor LENORE MANDERSON
Australian Professorial Federation Fellow (Women's Health), Monash
University
Half a woman: Biological dysfunctions and biographical disruptions among
Australian women
"In this paper, I draw upon extensive interviews conducted with 90 rural and
urban Australian women, whose lives have been disrupted by various
woman-specific reproductive health conditions affecting their fertility and
ability to conceive, everyday health and wellbeing, bodily appearance and
self-image. These include serious common disorders of pregnancy,
endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome and hysterectomy, all of which
require that women re-conceptualize themselves, reshaping their identity
around the immediate and longer term impact of these conditions. Depending
on the severity of the condition, age at onset and the significance that the
woman attributes to it, her life may be dominated by visits to general
practitioners, specialists, medication, and for some of these conditions,
hospitalization and surgery. Such medicalization operates to marginalize
women from their well, "normal," peers and friends. At the same time women
react to and internalize their bodies' failure, questioning their own
competence as women and their inability to control this."
Prof Manderson PhD, FASSA, is a medical anthropologist, known also for her
work as a sociologist, public health professional and social historian of
medicine.
From 1988-1998 she was Professor of Tropical Health at the University of
Queensland, during which period she conducted research in Asia and Africa on
reproductive health, sexuality and gender, infectious disease, and
development, and in Australia with Anglo-Australians, immigrant and
Indigenous Australians. Since 1988, she has worked closely with WHO in
particular with the Special Programme in Research and Training in Tropical
Disease. In 1999 she took up appointment as Professor and Director of the
Key Centre for Women's Health in Society at the University of Melbourne, and
in 2006 commenced as Research Professor at Monash University. In 2001,
Lenore was awarded an inaugural ARC Federation Fellowship. During the five
years of this Fellowship she is undertaking research on social aspects of
chronic disease, disability and aging which includes, in collaboration with
clinical, biological and other social scientists, a major multidisciplinary
study in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Lao PDR and Myanmar. She is an
elected Fellow of both the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the
World Academy of Art and Science.
VENUE: POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE CENTRE
PLEASE CONFIRM ATTENDANCE
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If you would like to attend, require further information or wish to meet the
speaker, please email [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
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All Public Health @ Brunel events are free and open to all.
Please feel free to circulate to any interested colleagues.
Thanking you and best wishes,
Ella Tighe
Research Fellow
Centre for Public Health Research
School of Health Sciences and Social Care
Brunel University
Gaskell Building GB070
Uxbridge UB8 3PH
Tel: +44 (0)1895 267339
Public Health @ Brunel: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/centres/cphr
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