Los contextos de vulnerabilidad de género del dolor cronificado = The gender vulnerability contexts of chronic pain

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the contexts of vulnerability involved in the formation of the phenomenon of chronic pain without organic cause, or fibromyalgia (DC/FM). A key factor that articulates the contexts of vulnerability and subjectivities that they produce are gender rela-tions, we characterize two (traditional and transitional) models. The research from which we derive the data is qualitative by semi-structured interviews, in the context of metropolitan Barcelona (Spain). From the analysis we have made a close relationship between the devel-opment of the DC/FM and social models of gender, both in the context of constitution of subjectivity of the interviewees, child life, and in the context of occurrence follows and development of the DC/FM in adulthood