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1LT: MD. M. Sc. Ciencias Sociomédicas. Esp. Medicina Interna. Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ph. D. Antropología Física, línea de especialidad de Cuerpo y Poder. Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Ciudad de México, México. tomoish@yahoo.es.
Background:
This work investigates the transformation of people experience with advanced cancer.
Objectives:
I) describe and analyze the transformation of the body of people with advanced cancer and II) describe and analyze the influence of religion in the transformation of that experience.
Methods:
An ethnography was carried out in a public hospital in Mexico City in Iztacalco city hall. Narrative was used as a tool to explore emotions, body and experience.
Discussion:
The theoretical discussion was based on the theories of the phenomenology of perception, the theory of performativity, the concept of habitus and the notion of globalization.
Conclusions:
The body is a continuous field of transformation from which the social and global meanings around cancer are constructed and influence the medical care.
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