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Title: | HIV, Stigma, and Rates of Infection: A Rumour without Evidence |
Authors: | Reidpath, DD Chan, KY |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
Publisher: | PLoS Medicine |
Citation: | PLoS Med. 3 (10), Oct 2006 |
Abstract: | The modern concept of a social stigma comes from the work of American sociologist Erving Goffman, who described it as a response to a deeply discrediting attribute that devalues the person [1]. In the medical literature, stigma is almost inevitably written about in terms of adverse social sequelae of a disease—such as leprosy, tuberculosis, epilepsy, schizophrenia, or filariasis [2–6]—or a physical characteristic or functional loss, such as obesity, deafness, or paraplegia [7–9]. The consequences of stigma range from moderate opprobrium at one end of the spectrum to death [10]. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/827 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030435 |
Appears in Collections: | Community Health and Public Health Dept of Health Sciences Research Papers |
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