This study aims at identifying social representations of diabetic clients on your body after the amputation, and analyze the relationship of these representations to the care of themselves. The research was a qualitative, exploratory, with the use of the social representations theory and case study method. The scenario was a hospital in the city of Belém, Pará, 20 subjects participated. The data collection techniques were: a free association of words and watch free. After examining three categories emerged: the healthy body - term health of living well, the body work - the perfection and beauty in daily life, The body amputated - the limitation caused by amputation; and the amputated body and its relation to the care of themselves. It is clear concern to recover the lost welfare.
Diabetes Mellitus; Amputation; Nursing