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When visible health problems become moral signifiers

My teeth are falling apart and I cover my mouth when I smile and I see how people look at me differently now like my dental decay reveals something about my character.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Observable health conditions linked to economic access invite social judgments that conflate physical and moral worth.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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