Ever since Goffman published his work on stigma in 1963, sociologists and other social scientists have been interested in understanding stigma. Goffman defined stigma as “an attribute that is deeply discrediting” and argues that the stigmatized person is reduced “from a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one” (Goffman 1963:3). Around the same time, sociologists and psychiatrists influenced by social constructionist perspectives challenged the biomedical conceptualization of (...)