期刊名称：Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad (RELACES)
电子版ISSN：1852-8759
出版年度：2015
期号：17
页码：32-41
出版社：CEA Unidad Ejecutora CONICET-UNC (20730)
摘要：This article isthe result of an ethnographic research with patients who have severe hepatic impairment and were transplanted at "Serviço de Transplante Hepático" from "HC UFPR". The research was realized with the use of the ethnographic method, having its base on the hypothesesthat the diagnosis of a chronic and serious disease when announcedby the doctors represents a traumatic event for the patient. The presence of the trauma produces a rupture on thebiographical temporality of the patient. Past and present are disconnected and the future as a project disappears givingplace to the imminence of death. The construction of a narrative about the living experience appears as a possiblestrategy to solve the lack of meaning of experience. Its construction passes by vicissitudes of the difficulties that theperson has to acknowledge the traumatic event. The presence of the disease as a group of symptoms that affect thebody's image and the sick person's identity isn't solved only with the transplant, it also needs meaningful-ness. Thetheoretical elements considered here for the analysis of the information are brought by Strauss(1999), Goffman (1988e 2008), Schutz (1970 e 2003), Kleinman (1988), Rabelo ( 1999), LeBreton (2006) e Sarti (2010).
