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Caught in a lie: the rise and fall of a respectable deviant

Caught in a lie: the rise and fall of a respectable deviant
Caught in a lie: the rise and fall of a respectable deviant
In this study we draw on the concept of respectable deviance to understand the journey into deviance – from her rise as an alternative health expert through to her public disgrace – of Belle Gibson, a young Australian blogger, app publisher and alternative medicine advocate who falsely claimed to have cured cancer without reverting to science-based medicine. Through the rigorous analysis of a series of media and documentary sources where Ms Gibson provided autobiographical accounts of her life experience, the argument is presented that the promotion of one’s self as a health expert and subsequently being outed as a fraudster encourages techniques of neutralization and particular presentations of self to respond and manage negative labelling and the stigma attached.

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Lavorgna, Anita
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Sugiura, Lisa
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Lavorgna, Anita
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Sugiura, Lisa
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Lavorgna, Anita and Sugiura, Lisa (2019) Caught in a lie: the rise and fall of a respectable deviant. Deviant Behavior, 40 (9), 1043-1056. (doi:10.1080/01639625.2018.1456724).

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In this study we draw on the concept of respectable deviance to understand the journey into deviance – from her rise as an alternative health expert through to her public disgrace – of Belle Gibson, a young Australian blogger, app publisher and alternative medicine advocate who falsely claimed to have cured cancer without reverting to science-based medicine. Through the rigorous analysis of a series of media and documentary sources where Ms Gibson provided autobiographical accounts of her life experience, the argument is presented that the promotion of one’s self as a health expert and subsequently being outed as a fraudster encourages techniques of neutralization and particular presentations of self to respond and manage negative labelling and the stigma attached.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 April 2018
Published date: 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 418762
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/418762
PURE UUID: 2f384685-7efd-4793-b7c7-a8abcadf8518
ORCID for Anita Lavorgna: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8484-1613

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Date deposited: 21 Mar 2018 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 06:20

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Author: Anita Lavorgna ORCID iD
Author: Lisa Sugiura

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