
pmid: 18503014
This article explores the disease-associated stigma attached to the SARS victims in the post-SARS era of Hong Kong. I argue that the SARS-associated stigma did not decrease over time. Based on the ethnographic data obtained from 16 months of participant observation in a SARS victims' self-help group and semistructured interviews, I argue that the SARS-associated stigma was maintained, revived, and reconstructed by the biomedical encounters, government institutions, and public perception. I also provide new insight on how the SARS-associated stigma could create problems for public health development in Hong Kong. As communicable diseases will be a continuing threat for the human society, understanding how the disease-associated stigma affects the outcomes of epidemic control measures will be crucial in developing a more responsive public health policy as well as medical follow-up and social support service to the diseased social groups of future epidemic outbreaks.
SARS, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Stereotyping, interviews, community and public health, 390, Professional-Patient Relations, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, medical, ethnography, Interviews as Topic, Self-Help Groups, C1, Social Isolation, 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology, Government, semistructured, participant observation, Hong Kong, Humans, anthropology, 920599 Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health) not elsewhere classified
SARS, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Stereotyping, interviews, community and public health, 390, Professional-Patient Relations, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, medical, ethnography, Interviews as Topic, Self-Help Groups, C1, Social Isolation, 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology, Government, semistructured, participant observation, Hong Kong, Humans, anthropology, 920599 Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health) not elsewhere classified
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