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Stigma respecified: Investigating HIV stigma as an interactional phenomenon
Author(s) -
Hutchinson Phil
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/jep.13724
Subject(s) - stigma (botany) , phenomenon , psychology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology , clinical psychology , family medicine , epistemology , philosophy
In this paper, I discuss stigma, understood as a category which includes acknowledged, enacted degradation, discreditation and discrimination. My discussion begins with an analysis of HIV stigma, as discussed in a social media post on Twitter. I then analyse a fictionalized clinical stigma scenario. These two analyses are undertaken to highlight aspects of the conceptual anatomy and interactional dynamics of stigma and by extension shame. Brief social media declarations and short, fictionalized clinical interactions are rich with information which helps us understand how stigma—degradation, discreditation and discrimination—is operationalized in interaction.