Resumen de Living a chronic illness: A condition between care and strategies
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.
