Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...making examples out of people like Johnson and Ashe is supposed to reduce the stigma of AIDS, it seems to be a misguided plan. It only serves to reinforce the distinction between the anonymous gays, Haitians and needle-users who get AIDS because their lifestyles are "different from ours," and the well-publicized individuals who were innocent victims such as we might...
...MIGHT GO so far as to wonder whether making public someone's identity as an AIDS patient (whether he is gay or straight) does not in fact increase the stigma of the disease. From then on he is identified with the illness, as a cancer or heart attack sufferer, for example...
...effects of the dearth of women and minority professors at the Law School are anything but trivial. It denies all students the benefits of learning from a faculty with a wide range of perspectives and knowledge. And the lack of role models for women and minority students perpetuates a stigma of inferiority...
...irony that achievement should have acquired such a stigma within the black community. Hard work, scholarship and respect for family values have long been a cornerstone of black identity. In the years before the Civil War, many black slaves risked their lives learning how to read. In 1867, just four years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans founded Morehouse and Howard universities. According to the Bureau of the Census, between Reconstruction and 1910, the literacy rate among Southern blacks climbed from 20% to 70%. "There has always been a strong pressure toward educational achievement," says Mae Kendall, director of elementary...
Most cancer survivors strike the same general themes: anxiety, ostracism, lost relationships, trouble at work and difficulty in getting adequate health insurance. The stigma long attached to cancer is only slightly diminished in the age of AIDS. Cancer is to the 20th century what tuberculosis was to the 19th, wrote Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor. In the popular imagination, it is not just another disease but the embodiment of evil. In some European countries, it was a common practice for doctors to lie to their cancer patients. Physicians would give the diagnosis to the family...