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Revista de Salud Pública
versión impresa ISSN 0124-0064
Resumen
LOZA-TAYLOR, Tomas. Religion, an unexplored dimension in people with advanced cancer at the end of life. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.3, pp.330-336. Epub 18-Sep-2020. ISSN 0124-0064. https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v22n3.85759.
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.
Palabras clave : Human body; life experience; religion; narrative and cancer (source: MeSH, NLM).
