The meaning of the diagnosis in the illness trajectory of a person with rheumatic disease: From the uncertainty to biographical disruption

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....

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Main Author: Rosa María Osorio Carranza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús 2017-07-01
Series:Salud Colectiva
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Online Access:http://revistas.unla.edu.ar/saludcolectiva/article/view/1144