title: Dreams of my daughter: an ectopic pregnancy.
abstract: Autoethnographic narrative, personal journal excerpts, and artifacts were employed to narrate the story of my ectopic pregnancy and experiences with the medical field. The name "Doctor" is invoked as a way of objectifying yet protecting the anonymity of the doctor who objectified and did not protect me. A methodological discussion of the following tensions in autoethnography is presented: intimacy/professionality, art/science, showing/explaining.
authors.affiliation: University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, USA.
authors.forename: Maria K E
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Lahman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011271:Pregnancy, Ectopic / Q000523:psychology*