SOC309Y1 Lecture : Stigma and HIV
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Bury illness distrupts the biographys we have for ourselves. Go throught life with a naritive, hopes and dreams (personal biography) Diagnosed with any type of illness distrupts this plan / path. People were living longer and struggling because they prepared to die and are now living. An attribute deeply discrediting within a particular social interaction. Deviating from the norm causes stigmatization www. notesolution. com. 3 categories of stigma: 1) abominations of the body various physical deformities. media showed the full impact of the growth of the boy. media stigmatizes people: 2) blemishes of individual character. back in 1960s weak wil domineering or unnatural passions etc. The disease is not well understood among public. 3 phases to the aids epidemic in any country: epidemic of hiv infection, epidemic of aids cases, epidemic of stigma. no society on earth where aids has appeared and there is no stigma.
