ABSTRACT
This study aimed the knowledge of research institute users' life and work stories who were stricken by Chagas Disease, giving emphasis to the relation between work and illness under their own interpretation. Through the theoretical and methodological perspective of ergology and also with the contributions of socio-anthropological studies on work and on the experience of becoming sick, the research sought the analysis of the relationship between work and illness, and the impacts that are part of this relationship, in order to reveal these subjects' way of walking through life. It was concluded that these subjects are able to manage their own path and that they are not passive before the medical practice.
KEYWORDS
Chagas Disease; Work; Disease; Qualitative research; Occupational health