Iatrogenic stigma in outpatient treatment for Hansen's disease (leprosy) in Brazil
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Iatrogenic stigma in outpatient treatment for Hansen's disease (leprosy) in Brazil.
This paper explores how iatrogenic stigma, or stigma that is produced through a patient's encounter with physicians or with biomedicine in general, might emerge in outpatient treatment for Hansen's disease, or leprosy. Based on in-depth interviews with people affected by Hansen's disease and observations conducted at several public health clinics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this research identif...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Education Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0268-1153,1465-3648
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyl158