No Ordinary Mainstream Illness

How HIV Doctors Perceive the Virus

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4675527
AutoresA Persson (0000-0002-1173-4697, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Christy E Newman (0000-0002-5482-2822, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Max Hopwood (0000-0001-8583-4255, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Michael R Kidd (Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia), Martin Kidd (0000-0002-0221-1245, Flinders University), Peter G Canavan (Independent Consumer Advocate, Warana, Queensland, Australia), Susan Kippax (UNSW Sydney), Susan C Kippax (University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Robert H Reynolds (Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Robert Rеynolds (0000-0003-3859-3668, Macquarie University), John De Wit (0000-0002-5895-7935, UNSW Sydney), John B F De Wit (University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Año2014
Volumen24
Número1
Páginas6-17
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732313514139
PMID24259535
OpenAlexW2162469334
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas38

Research has shown that social representations of HIV can constitute barriers to health workers' willingness to provide HIV care. Considering a growing shortage in the HIV primary workforce in Western countries, we examine how HIV is perceived today by doctors involved in its care. In 1989 Sontag predicted that once the virus became better understood and treatable, the dehumanizing meanings that defined the early epidemic would vanish and HIV would turn into an ordinary illness. However, research shows that HIV still carries stigma, including in the health care sector. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we found that HIV doctors in Australia perceived HIV as a far-from-ordinary chronic illness because of its extraordinary history and its capacity to extend in multiple clinical and social directions. These rarely explored perspectives can contribute to the social reframing of HIV and to strategies to build a dedicated HIV workforce in Australia and elsewhere

Cognitive reframing · Dehumanization · Economic growth · Family medicine · Fatalism · Health care · Mainstream · Political science · Psychiatry · Qualitative research · Social science · Social stigma · Sociology · Taboo · Workforce · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology