Illness Narratives Without the Illness: Biomedical HIV Prevention Narratives from East Africa.

ABSTRACT: Illness narratives invite practitioners to understand how biomedical and traditional health information is incorporated, integrated, or otherwise internalized into a patient's own sense of self and social identity. Such narratives also reveal cultural values, underlying patterns in society, and the overall life context of the narrator. Most illness narratives have been examined from the perspective of European-derived genres and literary theory, even though theorists from other parts of the globe have developed locally relevant literary theories. Further, illness narratives typically examine only the experience of illness through acute or chronic suffering (and potential recovery). The advent of biomedical disease prevention methods like post- and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP and PrEP) fo

SUBMITTER: Johnson-Peretz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11578797 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature