Stigma
Open Access
- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
- Vol. 8 (5), 317-323
- https://doi.org/10.1192/apt.8.5.317
Abstract
‘Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a grand scale.’ (Rudolph Virchov, 1848, quoted in Link & Phelan, 1996)Discrimination and prejudice against people with mental illnesses is ubiquitous, pernicious and wrong. The overwhelming case against such stigma has been recognised by initiatives from the UK government, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the US Surgeon General, the World Psychiatric Association and many other organisationsKeywords
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