October 2023
The paper Beyond biomedical classifications: breast cancer experience in Brazil, 1990-2015 (HCSM Jul-Sep 2022) analyses illness experiences of breast cancer in women undergoing treatment at the Hospital of Cancer III of the National Institute of Cancer (INCA), in Rio de Janeiro.
Researchers Carlos Barradas (University of Coimbra), Luiz Teixeira and Luiz Alves Araújo Neto (Fiocruz) investigated how women undergoing treatment for breast cancer understand and give meaning to their illness experience.
Illness experience is a phenomenon at the same time individual and collective, lived within the family sphere and in other circles, confronting different aspects that configure the subjectivity and personal trajectory of the sick person.
Breast cancer is a disease that, besides the violence of its biological effects, brings with it a strong symbolic and emotional load, related to both the suffering that it produces and the possible transformations on the body and on sociability. Among several topics raised by the statements of the interviewed users, the researchers highlighted three categories of analysis: the reception of the diagnosis; the relationship with the family; and the impact of illness and treatment on identity and self-perceptions.
Barradas, Carlos, Teixeira, Luiz Antonio and Araújo, Luiz Alves. Beyond biomedical classifications: breast cancer experience in Brazil, 1990-2015. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos [online]. 2022, v. 29, n. 3 [Accessed 11 October 2022], pp. 625-643. Available from: <https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702022000300003>
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