This paper describes the complex network of beliefs and values that envelopes the practices, discourses, habits, routines and language of individuals suffering from Chronic Renal Failure and undergoing hemodialysis. Taking a neopragmatic perspective of the individual as a starting point, the institutional trajectory of the chronic patient was investigated, charting his/her path, the descriptions of the disease, his/her body and identity; his/her relationship with medical discursive practices, State intervention and his/her new social identity: that of a chronic renal.
Subjectivity; Chronic Renal Failure; hemodialysis; medical institution; interdisciplinarity; neo-pragmatism