@article{98027,
  author = {Bhat N},
  title = {Lived experiences of stigma among elderly former leper patients in Kashmir, India},
  abstract = {<p>This study examines how elderly former leper patients make sense of stigma even after being completely cured. The present study was conducted at leper colony known as Bahrar at Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Literature indicates the presence of stigma associated with a person affected by leprosy but least scholarship is available to establish the relationship between stigma and the leprosy among the cured patients. Thus, this study was to identify the lived experiences of those elderly former leper patients in the context of socio-cultural perspectives. The participants were selected purposively to take part in the study after their consent was received. A total of 10 participants participated in the study. This study adopted interpretative phenomenology to address the lived experiences of living with stigma. From the analysis of the data, two themes were emerged that manifest the stigma present even after being cured which include 1) living a life of untouchables, and 2) the outcast children. The themes that emerged from the data reflects how stigma is deeply rooted in the culture and how institutional discrimination is also one of the reasons that stigma is still prevalent among the former patients.</p>
},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {19-24},
  issn = {2455-2070},
  url = {https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nasrullah-Bhat/publication/369356482_Lived_experiences_of_stigma_among_elderly_former_leper_patients_in_Kashmir_India/links/6415d74666f8522c38b61b7b/Lived-experiences-of-stigma-among-elderly-former-leper-patients-in-Ka},
  language = {Eng},
}