Postgraduate Medical Journal

Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Journal article · 1969 · Cited by 14,265

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Abstract

CONTENTS 1. Stigma and Social Identity Preliminary Conceptions The Own and the Wise Moral Career 2. Information Control and Personal Identity The Discredited and the Discreditable Social Information Visibility Personal Identity Biography Biographical Others Passing Techniques of Information Control Covering 3. Group Alignment and Ego Identity Ambivalence Professional Presentations In-Group Alignments Out-Group Alignments The Politics of Identity 4. The Self and Its Other Deviations and Norms The Normal Deviant Stigma and Reality 5. Deviations and Deviance

DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.45.527.642 · Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

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