Experiencing illness: theoretical considerations

This paper intends to establish some definitions and deal with key concepts and terms related to the understanding of illness as an experience. At the theoretical level, it aims to analyze the individual and collective determination of the experience of illness as the mediation between the macroscopic universe of meaning established in society and the ways in which this universe is sujectively real to individuals. This inquiry starts with the supposition that illness as an experience is both a subjetive and intersubjetive reality.

Illness Experience; Culture and Illness; Illness Behavior; Career of Illness