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GENTIL, Isabel. Construction of the identity from the handicap, in people with limp. Index Enferm [online]. 2008, vol.17, n.4, pp.241-245. ISSN 1699-5988.

Nursing works with healthy and sick persons, for it to know nurse must be also one to know brings over of the human beings, which implies an anthropologic dimension in knowing this one. In the present article it is studied, by means of qualitative methodology, how it influences the physical deficiency (limp) in the construction of the identity. The interviewed persons have elaborated his identity from the will power and with the strategies of overcoming that has helped to increase his autoesteem and to be valued to yes same opposite to the handicapped persons image by the one that they are represented by the society.

Palavras-chave : Identity; Handicap; Nursing research; Qualitative Methodology.