Narrated Experiences: Women Workers at the Rawson Hospital in Córdoba in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. An Approach from the Biographical Approach

The present study addresses the experiences of a group of women public health workers from the Rawson Hospital in Córdoba Capital, in the context of a pandemic. This study was carried out within communication as a discipline and field of action, following a qualitative methodology. By using concepts...

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Main Authors: Alaniz, Maria, Escuti, María
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2025
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/44327
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Summary:The present study addresses the experiences of a group of women public health workers from the Rawson Hospital in Córdoba Capital, in the context of a pandemic. This study was carried out within communication as a discipline and field of action, following a qualitative methodology. By using concepts from the biographical approach, life stories became the instrument used to access the social experiences of the pandemic, collected through open interviews. From a hermeneutic, existential and dialectical-constructivist approach, cultural analysis proposes an alternative reflection a health contingency, from the perspective of female workers. The analysis of these stories was based on two approaches. The first studies the temporal sequence of experience in three stages of a life story with a specific theme. The second approach, based on chronology, identifies experiences related to the construction of identity as women workers in the field of public health, in addition to emotions and experiences of the context. The stories show clues that allude to identity and belonging to a group, balancing between identity and difference. We identify factors about the socially assigned double role that serves as a link between the individual and collective identity of women. It was possible to obtain a direct account that reveals the changing effects of a socio-historical period so relevant for humanity.