The resignification of corporeity in young women experiencing chronicle illness

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Marcela Campos Sánchez
Laura Merchan Aguilar

Abstract

Current medical practice considers and takes care of patient bodies mostly as organ-structured objects leaving aside their symbolic dimension which entices the personal, cultural and the meaning-making spheres. Young women with chronicle illness usually undergo treatments meant either for children or adults disregarding their specific conditions as young persons.


In this study, testimonies of women under these conditions render new meanings structured as body metaphors resignifying thus their learnings  in order to contribute to integrate them into the medical knowledge and practice helping provide o more holistic health service that takes into account the corporeity as a whole. 

Keywords:
Body, youth, health.