We Can’t Fight Monkeypox “Ourselves”
Legacy media has reintroduced shame-based conversations from the AIDS era centering on behavioral change to contain an epidemic without mentioning vaccines. Have we learned nothing?
Joe Osmundson
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Joseph Osmundson is a scientist, activist, teacher, and writer. He has a PhD in molecular biophysics and is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU. His collection Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between, will be published in June.
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Does Shame Serve a Purpose Anymore?
People who feel shame believe one’s self is inherently wrong. Which might explain why those who most need to feel the emotion never do.