DM1: Autoethnography of a body in dispute

• Autor: Arce Coronel, Xiomi Camila
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/32140
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropia/article/view/32140
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Enfermedad; Autoetnografía; Diabetes tipo 1; Cuerpo; Biomedicina; Disease; Autoethnography; Type 1 diabetes; Body; Biomedicine

This chronic explores the experience of living with a chronic disease, type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1), from an autoethnographic perspective, highlighting the tensions between Western biomedicine and traditional and alternative therapies in a hybrid cultural context. Through a narrative that encompasses diagnosis, treatment, and cultural implications, it reflects on how the disease becomes a frontier between different systems of knowledge and power. In addition, the impact of these experiences on identity, the body, and conceptions of health are analyzed, addressing illness not only as a physiological phenomenon, but also as a cultural, symbolic, and political phenomenon. In this process, writing becomes a tool to understand and resignify vulnerability and the relationship with the body.