[Religion, an unexplored dimension in people with advanced cancer at the end of life].

Background: This work investigates the transformation of people experience with advanced cancer.

Objectives: I) describe and analyze the transformation of the body of people with advanced cancer and II) describe and analyze the influence of religion in the transformation of that experience.

Methods: An ethnography was carried out in a public hospital in Mexico City in Iztacalco city hall.

Body grammar and its meanings: an ethnography of the clinical context on language, and motor aphasia in a hospital in Mexico City.

This text is the result of an ethnographic research conducted in the neurological rehabilitation service at the Center for Mental and Neurological Health Care in Mexico City. This work focuses its problematic on elucidating how the body language of people with motor aphasia is reconstructed and what senses they generate. The analysis of the collected information led us to identify that language rehabilitation reconstructs a body grammar and uses the ability to narrate in order to restore language and communication.

[The perception of illness in people with chronic complications caused by diabetes mellitus].

Background: The representations and practices of people who suffer chronic complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus were described and analyzed. The information was analyzed with the constructivist grounded theory, the theories of social representations and experience of the disease, explanatory models of illness, and medical pluralism. The hypothesis of this research was to highlight the presence of diverse representations and practices in people with diabetes mellitus that help to signify the experience of the disease according to their sociocultural context.