Author: Ho, Lai Peng; Goh, Esther C. L.
Title: How HIV patients construct liveable identities in a shame based culture: the case of Singapore Document date: 2017_6_22
ID: rws2twyo_13
Snippet: In addition to physical debilitation, the self is further impacted by stigma, which corrodes the person's identity and self-worth (Goffman, 1963) . Goffman (1963) termed those who do not have the discrediting attribute as "normal" and those who do as "discredited". A significant consequence of effective treatment is that being HIV positive has become a concealable stigmatized identity (Quinn & Chaudoir, 2009 ) since the person may have no visible.....
Document: In addition to physical debilitation, the self is further impacted by stigma, which corrodes the person's identity and self-worth (Goffman, 1963) . Goffman (1963) termed those who do not have the discrediting attribute as "normal" and those who do as "discredited". A significant consequence of effective treatment is that being HIV positive has become a concealable stigmatized identity (Quinn & Chaudoir, 2009 ) since the person may have no visible signs of the disease. Those with concealable stigmatized identity can "pass" as "normal" (Goffman, 1963; Joachim & Acorn, 2000) by managing the disclosure of their stigmatized identity.
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