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Suffering from Sugar: Diabetes, Healthcare, and Everyday Life

Suffering from sugar: diabetes, health care and daily life

Chronic illness involves a subjective disorder that must be known, understood and explained, since it redefines to a high degree the positioning of the subjects within the social structure. This is a study on the subjective experience of diabetes, which takes into account its chronicity, its degenerative quality, the many demands placed on its treatment and what all this implies for the daily life of both from the patient as from his nearest circle.

Throughout this research, health is discussed as an individual and collective phenomenon. Thus, based on a critical analysis of the definitions that the WHO offers on health and disease, the representations made about these by both health personnel and subjects in general are explored. Based on such criteria, aspects such as the doctor-patient-health service relationship were studied; the beliefs, ideas and discourses established around diabetes; the intersubjective relations between the patient and his relatives, and the role of race, gender and social class in the experience of the disease.

The question was answered: how do social and subjective conditions intersect and influence the ways in which diabetes appears, is given meaning and lives with it? To achieve this goal, the focus was mainly on the sick individual, his discourses and his knowledge, but without neglecting the analysis of the experiences of the other actors involved in the health-disease-care process, namely; doctors, nurses and relatives of the patient.

From this research it is possible to argue that chronic disease causes subjective division since its suffering refers to an individual and intimate dimension that fractures identity and puts the previously constructed self in crisis, so that the body becomes strange and produces discomfort. Now, since the disease is also a social phenomenon, it is also worth affirming that with it comes a biographical rupture that questions the previously configured and defining frames of meaning of the relationship with others and with the environment. The disease questions the historical.

 

 

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Published
October 1, 2024
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9789587604962
9789587604979
9789587604986

How to Cite

Reyes, W. (2024). Suffering from Sugar: Diabetes, Healthcare, and Everyday Life. Ediciones Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. https://doi.org/10.16925/9789587604986