In this study we explore the experience and processes of hope of older women who were
bereaved after caring for a spouse with terminal cancer, and we develop a tentative …

Hope is a future expectancy characterized by an individual's perception that a desirable
future outcome can be achieved. Though scales exist to measure hope, they may have …

Objetivo Comprender las representaciones sociales acerca de la calidad de vida
relacionada con la salud en un grupo de personas con VIH/SIDA de Medellín-Colombia …

While the structure of liminality is well documented, the literature on the social and emotional
landscape of liminality is less so. In order to illustrate this social and emotional space I …

In this plenary address, I introduce the Global Congress for Qualitative Health Research, its
purpose, and its role internationally. Within this context, I explore the origins and …

Objectives: Within their local realities, people experience and interpret disease in diverse
ways that do not necessarily correlate or converge with Western biomedical interventions. In …

Medical pluralism offers a long-standing means of analysing the different ways in which
health and illness can be interpreted and responded to. It is not unusual for multiple health …

Background Hope or hopefulness enhances coping and improves quality of life in persons
with chronic or incurable illnesses. Lack of hope is associated with depression and anxiety …

This paper presents the first empirical results of a long-term project exploring the use of
hope as a concept summarising people's experience of the social, economic and cultural …

In response to the growing HIV epidemic in Africa in the 1990s, microbicide technologies
emerged from discourses of empowerment and imaginings of the sexual lives and agency of …