Journal article
The phenomenology of time: Lived experiences of people with HIV/AIDS in China
Abstract
Based on a qualitative study of lived experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in China, this article explores the role of time - in particular, time as lived (or, perceptual time) - in these individuals' construction and reconstruction of the meanings of their illness experiences. Although their HIV infection interrupted the linear flow of time, the end of which is death, they had reconstructed the meanings of time according to their …
Authors
Zhou YR
Journal
Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 310–325
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
May 2010
DOI
10.1177/1363459309358596
ISSN
1363-4593