My pain is not hers: ethnographic investigations on the lives of women with rheumatoid arthitis
rheumatoid arthritis, ilness, hospital, gender, social suffering
This research tries to investigate life experiences with rheumatoid arthritis focusing on the reality of women, but seeking to understand how the different social markers of difference are involved, from the discovery of the disease to the therapeutic processes. Thinking then how social relations influence the understanding of the disease but also in the care practices of the people accessed in the research. To this end, he is part of the Rheumatology outpatient clinic of the Onofre Lopes University Hospital, which receives the demand from the state of Rio Grande do Norte, and also from social networks, through snowball methodology and virtual network research, specifically groups on Facebook of people with RA. Aiming to understand, through the life path and the therapeutic itinerary, the different practices that occur in the experiences of the disease depending on the social context experienced and other factors involved.