This work required the writer to use the case study to answer the question. The question is: 1. Discuss with reference to the case study and literature on stigma the implications of stigma on the...

This work required the writer to use the case study to answer the question. The question is: 1. Discuss with reference to the case study and literature on stigma the implications of stigma on the health and wellbeing of those who are stigmatised? Erving Goffman's Definition of stigma(1963) According to Scambler (1989), people diagnosed as 'epileptic' are more likely to experience negative consequences due to the fear and anxiety of being discriminated ('Felt' stigma) than they are to experience actual episodes of discrimination ('Enacted' stigma). Hence, the fear and embarrassment caused by the awareness of the presence of a stigmatised attribute are more detrimental to the person's wellbeing than the chances of experiencing actual discrimination. Certain illnesses have particular meanings attached to them Mental illness HIV/Aids STDs Disability Impelement (loss of limb) and Disability (the social experience of imperement Stigma according to Goffman (1963) vary across time/space. Diseases: not only biological problem but the social response is what makes them stigmatizing please check file for more information. The answerer must carry Erving Goffman's (1963)and Scambler (1989), reference and they must be use to answerer the question