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TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
Volume 25, Issue 8, Pages 430-431Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2236(02)02209-9
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An increased emphasis on biological causes of mental illness has been viewed as having the potential to significantly reduce stigma. From this perspective, the current genetics revolution can be seen as a source of hope. However, some have argued that biological attributions could increase stigma, for example by making the ill person seem 'defective' or 'physically distinct' - 'almost a different species'. In this paper, I use a multicomponent conceptualization of stigma as a guide in forming hypotheses about the likely impact of genetic attributions on the stigma of mental illness.
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