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WAINER, Rafael. Acompañando a la gente en el último momento de su vida: reflexiones en torno a la construcción paliativista de la dignidad en el final de la vida. Runa [online]. 2007, vol.28, pp.111-140. ISSN 1851-9628.

This article's aim is to analyze the palliative professional construction regarding Dignity. Anthropological analysis of notions of and about Dignity has had less development than studies that it considers in an abstract or general manner (mainly within Philosophy and Bioetics). In this work, the focus is situated in the collective process of creation of performance, experience, emotion and meaning that try to dignify life in the social process of dying. My view is centered in the palliative care (PC) team members' point of view within an adult cancer hospital. In this manner, I pay special attention to the conceptualizations and professional performances about dignity, and also in an undirect way, to the means in which these notions are decodified, negotiated and transformed by people that experience illness and their families.

Palavras-chave : Dignity; Palliative Care; Terminality; Suffering.

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