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HUESO MONTORO, César. The experience of illness: An approximation from the theory of the social representation. Index Enferm [online]. 2006, vol.15, n.55, pp.49-53. ISSN 1699-5988.

Nowadays, the models of care management propose an approach to the most subjective aspects inherent in the illness, understanding this as an accumulation of cultural, social, historic circumstances, etc, which influence the answer that the person develops. This article proposes an analysis about the phenomenon of the experience of illness, articulating its main argument around the theory of the social representations of Moscovici. The elements of this theory convert the experience of illness in a susceptible phenomenon to be analyzed as a social representation, because constitutes a source of collective and individual meanings that influence the way in which the person acts and responds to illness.