Re-framing Stigma: Felt and Enacted Stigma and Challenges to the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-46

  Scambler, Graham ^a  

^a University College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

enacted stigma; epilepsy; felt stigma; relations of deviance; relations of stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 13944267385     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.sth.8700012     Document Type: Article

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