title: [Conception of body in Merleau-Ponty and women who were mastectomized].
abstract: Breast cancer has been the responsible for the largest mortality rate in the world, becoming one of the great concerns in health, regarding woman's health. Related to the therapeutics, although wide approaches of interventions that make possible better cure perspectives exist, the mastectomy is as treatment base. Article of philosophic reflection, had as study women's that lived the mastectomy aiming at to reflect the conception of these women's body starting from the work Phenomenology of the Perception of Merleau-Ponty object and of authors that work with the theme regarding the woman mastectomized.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Escola de Enfermagem, Salvador, BA.
authors.forename: Rosana Freitas
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Azevedo
authors.forename: Regina Lucia Mendonça
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Lopes
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000523:psychology*