Facial Stigmata and Their Powerful Effects in Literature and Life

• Autores: Amy Thorne
• Localización: JAMA Dermatology, ISSN 2168-6068, Vol. 149, Nº. 5, 2013, pág. 569
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For the Greeks, the archaic definition of stigma was a distinct mark burned or cut into the skin used to identify a slave or criminal. Today, the definition does not allude to the branding of the flesh, but rather any mark on the skin which �detracts from the character or reputation of a person,�1 or simply a mark indicating �that something is not normal or standard.�1 According to psychological literature, a facial stigma can be any deforming mark: a scar, port-wine stain, neoplasm, or large nevus, for example.2 A 2012 report by Madera and Hebl3 titled �Discrimination against facially stigmatized applicants in interviews: an eye-tracking and face-to-face investigation� demonstrated for the first time the mechanism behind discrimination against those marked with a deforming facial stigma.3