Living a chronic illness: A condition between care and strategies

• Autores: Erica Eugeni
• 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. 111-126
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The aim of the article is to explore the condition of patients who receive haemodialysis treatment, looking at how they live their permanent condition of illness allowed by a specific treatment that requires patients to spend a long time in hospitals, depending on the artificial kidney and on the health practitioners that ask the patients to develop self-discipline and body techniques. The research has showed how the patients react to the forced changes in term of sense of identity and life style.