STIGMATIZACIJA HIV POZITIVNIH ZAVISNIKA OD DROGA U OKVIRU MEDICINSKOG SISTEMA
STIGMATIZATION OF HIV POSITIVE DRUG ADDICTS WITHIN THE MEDICAL SYSTEM

Summary/Abstract: Hiv-positive drug-addicts are a new class of patients. Since when during the promotion of AIDS drug-addicts became a typical "risk group", the relation of doctors towards them has changed on the institutional level, but the stigmatization of infected drug-addicts and drug-addicts in general has changed and increased. In this paper the characteristics of stigmatization of drug-addicts within the medical system are discussed: the stigma of AIDS as a disease, "loading in" guilt for the disease (AIDS) to deviants and repressiveness that this implies, and which goes beyond the repressiveness from the role of a doctors agents of social control. The transparency and power of this stigmatization is also analyzed.

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