LA ENFERMEDAD VINO PARA QUEDARSE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to learn the experience of diabetic clients who live healt disease phenomena in an outpatient Service of endocrinology in a school hospital. The objective of the research was to obtain a comprehensive view of their way of thinking, their practices and their feelings lived during treatment. I adopted Spradley's ethnographic methodology (1979, 1980) and simbolic interactionism. The disease metaphor emerged from this cultural universe as dangerous, impossible that destroys and stay. The disease is lived as an illness that provokes different feelings, like sadness, panic, pain and death. The emic knowledge obtained from their etnografic research gave to nursing practice important episthemologic
and onthologic bases.