Labels and lingo in epilepsy: A response to Dr Hatcher
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Labels and lingo in epilepsy: A response to Dr Hatcher
Dr Hatcher expresses concern about the use of the abbreviation ‘PWE’ rather than the phrase ‘person with epilepsy’, which he considers an offensive and stigmatising practice. As a researcher on stigma, I have some sympathy with Dr Hatcher’s position – to be abbreviated is a state unlikely to be welcomed by any of us, whether we have epilepsy or any other condition of human being. Dr Hatcher mak...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seizure
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1059-1311
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2014.01.015