Suffering, silence, and status
The importance and challenges of qualitative research on Aids orphanhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19444039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K E Cheney (0000-0002-4216-7410, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-40 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AIDS Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-0121 • E-ISSN: 1360-0451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09540121.2014.963010 |
| PMID | 25297723 |
| OpenAlex | W2033633535 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Ugandan children affected by AIDS conducted from 2007 to 2014, this report summarizes findings of a study conducted to better understand the ways children experience orphanhood at the hands of HIV/AIDS. Three crucial, interrelated concepts emerged: suffering, silence, and status. This study explored the social context of AIDS orphanhood as both a cause of social suffering and a context for the suffering of individual children. Though problematic, silence about suffering is often due to continuing HIV/AIDS stigma in Uganda that makes one's status unspeakable, in spite of the adverse effect this has on the social order and efforts to eradicate the disease. Approaching silence as a distinct form of communication rather than an absence of it, the report considers silence's intergenerational functions, its detriments, and its consolations, in the context of HIV/AIDS-affected children's lives. In doing so, it also highlights the need for more child-centered, qualitative research on AIDS' psychosocial effects on children, despite the challenges of doing such research
Ethnography · Family medicine · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Qualitative research · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2018 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |