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But the danger of stigmatizing a population by linking its genetics with diseases is probably higher for groups of lower socioeconomic status.

The medical establishment must come to understand that the historical stigmatizing of herbal remedies only increases the distrust of orthodox medicine.

Readers have criticized it for presenting a biased and stigmatizing view of BPD.

He would avoid stigmatizing most former welfare recipients in the marketplace because his plan subsidizes only long-term recipients of welfare.

For members of some cultural groups the presence of an AAC device increases the visibility of disability and is thus viewed as stigmatizing.

When a longitudinal view is taken, however, we often find great discontinuities amongst children in care as they experience a series of unrelated interventions and moves which can often be isolating and stigmatizing.

Rachel Lloyd, Founder and Executive Director of GEMS, wrote an article on HuffingtonPost.com to explain how harmful and stigmatizing these kinds of segments are.

Because he was not depressed and felt that a record of having taken an antidepressant might be stigmatizing, he opted to pay out of pocket for Zyban, which proved minimally effective for him, anyway.

"For several years, the United States government was more interested in stigmatizing and silencing its foreign critics than in engaging them," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Vanishing Stigma "This suggests to me that we are weakening the role of the criminal justice system," said Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University, because it was meant to deter crime by stigmatizing people with the threat of imprisonment.

He finds himself assailed by partial and ill-humoured Criticism: One Man finds fault with the plan, Another with the style, a Third with the precept, which it strives to inculcate; and they who cannot succeed in finding fault with the Book, employ themselves in stigmatizing its Author.

The social and stigmatising aspects of a cleft hand require more attention.

His overly frank style of speaking and the often stigmatising tone of his arguments have caused him to be extremely unpopular in Flanders.

It recommended suitable steps to be taken for amelioration of the pitiable conditions of the Criminal Tribes rather than stigmatising them as criminals.

Symbolical stigmatising, 'marking', 'deviancy-imaging', 'branding'

We do not want to be involved in the stigmatising of alcoholic drinks with the sole exception of areas where new products may present a health hazard for the unwary.

Discrimination and stigmatising of minority ethnic groups has, at the same time, increased and academic studies have concluded that the targeted use of traditional policing methods is more effective than injunctions at dealing with gang violence.

This shift towards trying to force people into jobs - jobs that increasingly don't exist and remove them from benefits - has been associated with the most harsh, cruel and inaccurate scapegoating and stigmatising of mental health service users on benefits.

Withdrawal now tends to be discouraged, partly because it is thought to be another form of segregation within the ordinary school, and therefore in danger of isolating and stigmatising children, and partly because it deprives children of access to lessons and activities available to other children.

But, yes, it does seem to be that the general attitude is that if you're not a vegetable you're not disabled; that the motorbility scheme that rightfully came into being due to the stigmatising and dangerous 3 wheeled light blue "cars" being an insult to the disabled should be scrapped due to (???)