ANTC68H3 Chapter Notes -Sick Individuals, 1918 Flu Pandemic, Leprosy
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Week#5: stigma in the time of influenza: social and institutional responses to. Pandemic emergencies by ron barrett & peter brown. Stigma was originally a classic greek term for a permanent mark that branded a person as a criminal but now describes the process of negative discrimination against people with certain physical, behavioral or social attributes. It can be argued that stigma is an illness itself comorbid with respect to its marked physical conditions. Stigma exacerbates the disease itself such as in the case of leprosy, hansen"s disease and aids. Farmer and kleinmann: aids pandemic caused suffering that was created by socioeconomic inequalities, compounded by the inappropriate use of resources, magnified by discrimination, augmented by fear and amplified by the loss of social identity. Increased focus on bioterrorism applications of infectious disease that are only worst case scenarios, increased focus on unknown risks from new diseases and he unknowable consequences of bioweapons at the expense of known threats such as influenza.