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: This study showed that despite medical advances which promise longer and healthier lives for people with HIV, the dominant narrative of the disease continues to make living with HIV difficult. Although medicine extends lives, it neither transforms the shame that is attached to the disease nor automatically makes HIV a normalized chronic condition. In order for those with HIV to be able to live and move on, they need to rebuild their world with a .....
Document: This study showed that despite medical advances which promise longer and healthier lives for people with HIV, the dominant narrative of the disease continues to make living with HIV difficult. Although medicine extends lives, it neither transforms the shame that is attached to the disease nor automatically makes HIV a normalized chronic condition. In order for those with HIV to be able to live and move on, they need to rebuild their world with a spoilt identity. They learn to reconstruct their identity in response to the pervasiveness of the stigma of HIV. This study showed that there is variation in identity reconstruction and enhanced the understanding of identity work of people with HIV in the context of Singapore.
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