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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2019
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), .
(doi:10.1080/01639625.2018.1456724).
Abstract
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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