Experiences and strategies of people with sickle cell disease in the Federal District: the biographical rupture
Jéssica Luciano da Costa,
Maria Inez Montagner,
Miguel Ângelo Montagner
et al.
Abstract:This is a study on sickle cell disease, a chronic illness that affects many Brazilians, that aims to understand and analyze how people address the adversities arising from the diagnosis and the biographical rupture. The description of people’s experiences and strategies conjures a picture that expresses the respondents’ habitus, built in a dialectical relationship with the vulnerability determined by the disease. We adopted a qualitative approach and focused interviews as proposed by Merton, combined with the … Show more
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