Author: Ho, Lai Peng; Goh, Esther C. L.
Title: How HIV patients construct liveable identities in a shame based culture: the case of Singapore Document date: 2017_6_22
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Snippet: In the aftermath of an HIV diagnosis, the infected people confronted a future where their previously familiar and benign world has turned hostile against them and challenged their right to coexist with uninfected people. HIV is much more than a medical condition. It possesses undesirable meanings influenced by its recent tumultuous history as a deadly disease sweeping across the world, and people diagnosed with HIV are judged to deserve their pai.....
Document: In the aftermath of an HIV diagnosis, the infected people confronted a future where their previously familiar and benign world has turned hostile against them and challenged their right to coexist with uninfected people. HIV is much more than a medical condition. It possesses undesirable meanings influenced by its recent tumultuous history as a deadly disease sweeping across the world, and people diagnosed with HIV are judged to deserve their pain and suffering. The challenge is for those living with the virus to emerge from under the shadow of its dominant narrative and transcend it by reconstructing identities which will enable living to be more manageable and bearable. It seems that even in a Chinese majority society like Singapore, the four participants, who are ethnically Chinese, managed to reconstruct "liveable" identities despite the shame of having HIV.
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