Josefina Ramírez Veázquez
This essay briefly presents the development of the construction of stress as anthropology study object. The main objective is to show how, from anthropology perspective, the disease concept considers a double knowledge dimension: one emerging from biomedical professions -disease anad body are thought as universals and analyzed from their biological nature-; and another from a socio-cultural perspective highlighting the socially produced and culturally constructed nature of disease, thus signifying and representing. Interest in stress as anthropology study object focus in unveiling the experience and meaning of people admitting stress suffering, loking forward undertanding about stress processes.
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