Misrecognition, social stigma, and COVID-19.
Dev World Bioeth
; 22(4): 211-216, 2022 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2231138
ABSTRACT
As social and interdependent beings, we have responsibilities to each other. One of them is to recognize each other appropriately. When we fail to meet this responsibility, we often stigmatize. In this paper, I argue that the COVID-19-related stigmatization is a variation of the lack of recognition understood as an orientation to our evaluative features. Various stereotypical behaviors regarding COVID-19 become stigmatized practices because of labeling, stereotyping, separation, status loss and discrimination, and power. When people stigmatize COVID-19 victims, they orient themselves to their evaluative quality of being vulnerable to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by internalizing the victims as dangerous, understanding them as separable, and being motivated to act with them differently. All this causes the COVID-19 victims to lose status and suffer discrimination for which they do not experience participatory parity in different facets of their lives, rendering the COVID-19-related stigmatization an appalling example of misrecognition.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Social Stigma
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Dev World Bioeth
Journal subject:
Ethics
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Dewb.12331
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