In the Closet with Illness: Epilepsy, Stigma Potential and Information Control
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- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 28 (1) , 32-44
Abstract
In this paper we extend and modity the metaphor of being in or out of the closet to analyze how people manage information to control the stigma potenKeywords
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