El significado del diagnóstico en la trayectoria del enfermo reumático

De la incertidumbre a la disrupción biográfica

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ID15530795
AuthorsRosa María Osorio Carranza (0000-0002-3013-5948, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume13
Issue2
Pages211-211
Publication date2017-07-17
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSalud Colectiva (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1669-2381 • E-ISSN: 1851-8265
PublisherInstituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús (PUBLISHER • AR)
DOI10.18294/sc.2017.1144
PMID28832819
OpenAlexW2735566392
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited10

This article seeks to analyze the meaning of the medical diagnosis in the biographies of people who suffer from a rheumatic disease. Based in the ethnographic method, in-depth interviews were carried out among fifteen informants affected by different rheumatic conditions from the City of Barcelona. These interviews make it possible to see how the symptoms, dysfunctions or limitations experienced up until the definitive diagnosis can be reinterpreted in the presence of a model that explains the condition and gives it a name, attributing new meaning to the symptoms and establishing certain care and coping strategies. After a period of uncertainty, this definitive medical diagnosis allows for an enigmatic chronic condition from which the person is suffering to be deciphered, representing a turning point in the care trajectory that is understood as a biographical disruption redefining the past and future of the subject. However, it is often necessary for those affected to undergo a complex, erratic and uncertain itinerary to reach the final diagnosis, which is then identified retrospectively as a milestone in the illness experience

Art · Humanities · Philosophy · Public Health and Social Inequalities

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