A `little world of your own
Stigma, Gender and Narratives of Venereal Disease Contact Tracing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4837320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antje Kampf (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-250 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363459307086845 |
| PMID | 18400831 |
| OpenAlex | W2001833857 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
As in other countries, in order to protect the public from venereal disease (syphilis and gonorrhoea), contact tracing in New Zealand has been a public health strategy since the mid-20th century. So far, scholars have predominantly focused on the aspect of control of the cases traced. Based on a rare interview with a female contact tracer, together with a range of archival material, this article aims to expand the scholarship by focusing on the tracer instead of the patient. Using Erving Goffman's original concept of `courtesy stigma', the article will show that his idea can be nuanced to take into account contact tracers and the ways in which this stigma can be refracted through gender. Working as a tracer had a distinct impact on her life and possibly even her marital status, which were compromised by secrecy, stigma, morality and the demands of public health policies - aspects that were, paradoxically, quite similar to those she traced. The courtesy stigma that contact tracers for venereal disease acquired limited their professional options, as well as isolated them in the non-stigmatized social world
Art · Contact tracing · Courtesy · Criminology · Disease · Family medicine · Media studies · Narrative · Pathology · Political science · Psychiatry · Public health · Scholarship · Secrecy · Social stigma · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2018 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |