How HIV patients construct liveable identities in a shame based culture: the case of Singapore

This article interrogates the mainstream healthcare narrative that frames human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as a chronic disease, and triangulates it with the lived experiences of people with HIV in Singapore. It also examines how HIV patients reconstruct their identities after the diagnosis of HIV...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lai Peng Ho, Esther C. L. Goh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2017.1333899