Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with stigma
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
HIV clinics, here in Appalachia, often have no doctors on the premises. Doctors are expensive and are seen as a luxury. On a good day. These are not good days. It feels like the 1980s all over again. With HIV, your health is inherently precarious, and when the systems that…
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Appalachian Savages and the Stigma
Stigma has its thick-skinned tongue licking out their fastidious shit holes it is a crisis it is a nonchalant devoutness it is inflamed, of consequence, provoked, quivering. Just stick me, God. I am usually far more interested in their reactions to stigma than I am in stigma itself. Run, as…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Explaining Death
Explaining the reality of death to a child also means explaining disease. The subjects of stigma and confidentiality are relevant. AIDS is not over. That people still die is rarely in the news. Even doctors still list other direct causes of death which can tend to make counting numbers bogus.…
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Stigma at Public Health
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