Abstract

LEDON LLANES, Loraine. Paradox in the care of sexuality of people with endocrine diseases?. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2016, vol.27, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2953.

Sexual impact caused by endocrinopathies has been documented in the scientific literature, but little attention is paid in the health circles. The article was intended to make reflections on some aspects of these realities, on the basis of the analysis of processes of health care, research and social policies, using determination and sociocultural and historical character of sexuality, health, science and technology as cross perspective. The article was organized in four interrelated subsections: 1) fields of knowledge about sexuality of people with endocrinopathies; 2) some determinants of the invisibility of the topic in assistance sites (such as hegemony of biomedical specialties, social representations in respect to the categories body, disease and sexuality; the ¨physician-patient¨ perspective and the poor training of health providers on these topics); 3) the research process and some of its fundamental paradigms; and 4) the situation of the policies and programs related to sexuality of people with endocrinopathies. The article was concluded by committing to the principles of multi-inter-transdiscipline, social involvement, need of integrating different know-how and of making scientific paradigms more flexible, and the social appropriation of resulting products of the scientific process in any expression, as foundations to visualize and to pay attention to health topics like sexuality of people with endocrinopathies.

Keywords : sexuality; endocrine diseases; health care; science; technology.

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