Illness and other assaults on self

The relative impact of HIV/Aids on women's lives

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2248609
AutoresDesire ́e Ciambrone (John Brown University, autor correspondente), Desire´e Ciambrone
Ano2001
Volume23
Fascículo4
Páginas517-540
Data de publicação2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.00263
OpenAlexW2091799198
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas40

Based on interviews with 37 women with HIV infection, this paper explores women's perceptions of HIV/AIDS in relation to other traumatic life events. Employing a biographical disruption framework, this paper demonstrates how women reconstruct the meaning of HIV infection in light of other disruptive life situations. Findings indicate that despite initial disruption, in retrospect, many of the sample women did not consider HIV to be the most devastating event in their lives. Rather, violence, mother-child separation, and drug use were deemed more disruptive than HIV infection. Several factors, including race, drug use and abuse histories, social support and diagnosis, were central to women's differential assessment of HIV in relation to other disruptive events. Results are discussed in terms of the practical and theoretical implications of the analysis

Developmental psychology · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Meaning (existential · Perception · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Substance abuse · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Clinical Psychology · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues