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0223/2018 - Alterity of the Elderly’s Body: Strangeness and Pain in Collective Health.
Alteridade do Corpo do Velho: Estranhamento e Dor na Saúde Coletiva.

Author:

• Wagner Jorge dos Santos - Santos, WJ - <wagnerjorge@cpqrr.fiocruz>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5107-8519

Co-author(s):

• Karla Cristina Giacomin - Giacomin, K. C. - <kcgiacomin@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9510-6953
• Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo - Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo - Belo Horizonte, - <firmoj@minas.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5330-476X


Abstract:

In old age, the patient\'s body becomes strange and reveals an consciousness of otherness, since the original body becomes multiple in comea relentless and endless temporality. This paper investigates how the old body mobilizes the estrangement as a subject, producing the addresses of own shares in the experience of disease and practice of public health. The research, developed in the qualitative approach of anthropological, is based on the assumptions of ethnography. Individual with semi-structured interviews in 57 elderly universe were held. The methodology of Signs, Meanings and Actions oriented data collection and analysis enabling the investigation of representations and concrete behaviors associated with the otherness of the body. There was the sense of production of otherness in relation to two analytical categories associated with aging and disease. Notes a split between the active body memory and another lived with limitations at present, reflecting the face of self-care and adherence to treatment. The body of the old man is heir to a body image that remodels constantly, depriving the elderly of their place of contemporary subject himself, as he becomes another.

Keywords:

Alterity, Body Image, Pain, Illness, Elderly

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Santos, WJ, Giacomin, K. C., Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo. Alterity of the Elderly’s Body: Strangeness and Pain in Collective Health.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2018/Apr). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/alterity-of-the-elderlys-body-strangeness-and-pain-in-collective-health/16756



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