Imaginaries of patienthood: Constructions of HIV patients by HIV specialist health professionals

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dc.contributor.authorBrown, Brian J.
dc.contributor.authorJaspal, Rusi
dc.date.acceptance2022-04-01
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-04T14:46:36Z
dc.date.available2022-04-04T14:46:36Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-31
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the ways in which HIV specialists based in the United Kingdom (UK) construct, conceptualise and imagine their patient group via the concept of the ‘imaginary’, a notion encompassing the symbols, concepts and values through which people make sense of their social environment. In discussing their work with men who have sex with men (MSM), practitioners described patients as knowledgeable and highly adherent to treatment, yet apt to pursue hedonistic lives involving sex and recreational drugs. Recent innovations in treatment were formulated in terms of optimism and progress and the ascent of biomedical approaches was cast as an advance over former emphases on psychosocial interventions and attempts to facilitate behaviour change. In contrast to the imaginary of patients who were well-informed and highly compliant with treatment, participants also sought to explain those who were not easily enfolded within modern treatment regimens or who were seen to be overly emotional. These patients, it was said, had some pre-existing psychological problem or perhaps were especially vulnerable to societal pressures. Overall, the imaginary of the public was pervaded by therapeutic optimism, a sense of progress and an invigoration of biomedical themes in overcoming the challenges of delivering services to MSM.en
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dc.identifier.citationBrown, B. and Jaspal, R. (2022) Imaginaries of patienthood: Constructions of HIV patients by HIV specialist health professionals. Sociology of Health and illnessen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13472
dc.identifier.issn1467-9566
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/21795
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.researchinstituteMary Seacole Research Centreen
dc.subjectHIV medicineen
dc.subjectsocial imaginaryen
dc.subjectpractitionersen
dc.subjectrisken
dc.titleImaginaries of patienthood: Constructions of HIV patients by HIV specialist health professionalsen
dc.typeArticleen

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