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Interviews and biographical time: the case of long‐term HIV nonprogressors
Author(s) -
Pierret Janine
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.00246
Subject(s) - typology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , context (archaeology) , term (time) , psychology , qualitative research , sociology , gerontology , medicine , family medicine , history , social science , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , anthropology
In 1996–1997, I interviewed 30 men and women who, though infected with HIV nearly 10 years earlier, were still not sick and were not receiving treatment. The empirical data drawn from these interviews are used to show how the conditions and context of this research affected the stances adopted by interviewees and led them to centre their comments on their experience of time. The analysis of these data focused on the form of the interview and the conception of time. A typology is proposed of how time was constructed during interviews.