Injecting, Infection, Illness
Abjection and Hepatitis C Stigma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4910230 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magdalena Harris (0000-0001-8718-8226, National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 33-51 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x09347221 |
| OpenAlex | W2147409646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 21 |
While social research has documented the prevalence and ill effects of hepatitis C related stigma, there has been little analysis of the ways in which this stigma is constituted. This article addresses this gap in the literature by providing a phenomenologically informed account of the ways in which societal attitudes and regulations draw from and feed back into corporeal processes and experiences of embodiment in the creation of hepatitis C related stigma. The case is made that three components are central to hepatitis C stigma: associations with illicit drug injecting, infectiousness and societal aversion to chronic illness. The article draws upon qualitative interviews with 40 people living with chronic hepatitis C in New Zealand and Australia, as well as the researcher's embodied experience of living with the virus. The works of Julia Kristeva and Mary Douglas are utilized to provide an analysis that moves beyond acknowledgement of societal reinforcers of stigma, such as prohibitory drug laws, to address underlying notions of boundary crossing in the production of stigma and exclusionary practices
Acknowledgement · Criminology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Psychiatry · Qualitative research · Social science · Social stigma · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Hepatitis C virus research · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Virology
Hepatitis C treatment access and uptake for people who inject drugs
Impermanence and Sense of Coherence
Behind closed doors, no one sees, no one knows’
Views and experiences of hepatitis C testing and diagnosis among people who inject drugs
Appreciating contributions more than celebrating resilience
Conceptualising hepatitis C stigma
Structural factors that promote stigmatization of drug users with hepatitis C in hospital emergency departments
We, ourselves and us
Doing autoethnographic drugs research
Maintaining the healthy body
Managing expense and expectation in a treatment revolution
Hepatitis C health promotion and the anomalous sexual subject
A dirty little secret
Theorizing the virus
Risk and emotion
Purity and Danger
Slippery Slopes and Russian Roulettes
The embodied relationality of blood-borne viruses
Loss, shame and secrecy in women's experiences of a vulval skin condition
Experiences of diagnosis, stigma, culpability and disclosure in male patients with hepatitis C virus
Post-crisis imaginaries in the time of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment
Mapping the Drugged Body
Shame, Chronic Illness and Participatory Storytelling
Felt and Enacted Stigma Among HIV/HCV-Coinfected Adults
Staying Safe From Hepatitis C
Three in the Room
Pleasure and Guilt
Is disclosure a privilege? Race and disclosure patterns of hepatitis C
To be or not to be sick and tired
Embodiment and Abjection
Troubling complaint
Practising care in a pandemic
Proper distance in the age of social distancing
Negotiating access to medical treatment and the making of patient citizenship
Purity and Danger
Sociologies of Disability and Illness
Powers of Horror
Stigma
Embodying the Monster
Purity and Danger
Beggars, Metaphors, and Stigma
Phenomenology of Perception
This Body Which is Not One
Self, identity and the naming question
HIV and Aids-related stigma and discrimination
Drug Addiction and Capitalism
Psychiatric Culture and Bodies of Resistance
Bodily Dys-Order
Controlling DeathCompromising Life
Living Stigma
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |