TY - SER TI - La percepción del enfermar SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa N2 - This article is prepared, as the author herself states, <>. Starting from this premise, Rosa M.ª Alberdi makes a theoretical approach to the meanings of the symptom, the function of the diagnosis, and-what she calls-research at the limits. All of this aimed at breaking the vicious circle that implies objectifying reality by translating it into physiological quantifications. And always seeking to offer food for thought for those currents of thought that offer alternatives to the biologist model of the health-disease phenomenon ER -