[The corporality of the client according to nursing students representations]

This study based on the theory of the Social Representation that subsidized the apprehension and analysis of how nursing students had perceived and represented the body of their clients and the emergent subjectives of contact and relation of taking care. It was carried with 20 female students of four grades of the nursing faculty of the UNIFESP The data were obtained using interview and analysed by content analysis method (Categorial Analysis) that showed the following categories: body object, stigmatisation, student-client relationship, body communication, privacy's intrusion and embarrassing.