The risk of venous thrombosis and its transmission: Medical progress and loss of body image

• Autores: Claudie Haxaire, Francis Couturaud, Christophe Leroyer
• Localización: Of Bodies and Symptoms: Anthropological Perspectives on their Social and Medical Treatment / coord. por Sylvie Fainzang, Claudie Haxaire, 2011, ISBN 978-84-694-4991-2, págs. 151-168
• Idioma: inglés
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  • A recent clinical study shows that the determination of family risk of idiopathic thrombosis using clinical variables is more reliable than genetic test. But for the patients and their families, these advances in medical knowledge are a source of bewilderment and dismay, because they make the risk more abstract. They tend to associate the illness with more familiar entities that have more meaningful symptoms, linked to imaginary forms of the material body. For the thrombosis patient the persistence of discomfort in the affected part of the body take on the significance of corporal memory.