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    It is not the case that Stigmatization as a public health policy risks encouraging a broader culture of victim-blaming.

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    • 1.Stigmatizing messaging normalizes the attribution of blame to individuals for their health conditions.
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    • 2.Normalizing blame toward individuals for conditions rooted in social disadvantage or biology reinforces victim-blaming norms.
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    • 1.Structural injustice theory (Young, 2011) holds that social conditions—not individual choices—are the primary drivers of health disparities.
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    • 2.When policy frames disease as a moral failing, it systematically misattributes structural causation to personal agency.
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    • 3.Misattributing structural causes to personal agency entrenches ideological conditions that legitimate neglect of redistributive remedies.
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    • 1.Foucault's genealogy of public health demonstrates that stigmatizing discourse historically functions as a mechanism of biopolitical control over marginalized populations.
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    • 2.Control mechanisms that individualize blame for systemic conditions reproducibly generalize across health domains once institutionally normalized.
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    • 3.Generalized blame norms, once institutionally embedded, resist domain-specific containment and propagate a culture of victim-blaming beyond their original targets.
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