He broke new ground by depicting persons said to be dehumanised by poverty and ignorance and injustice as being genuinely dehumanised, and dehumanised quite permanently.
The context of its usage, especially in politics, has allowed the word to be dehumanising.
"The constant pressure to perform, and be profitable, can be dehumanising.
"Modern healthcare can be dehumanising.
Prisons can, by nature, be dehumanising.
Asylum seekers and refugees that make it to this country alive are dehumanised and often treated appallingly.
Workers, unable to resist this exercise of power, were dehumanised in overcrowded hostels, denied access to care, and adopted a fatalism in their risk perceptions that was integral to the spread of HIV on the mines in South Africa [ 34].
Because in this brave new world of casualised work, ordinary people are dehumanised, reduced to disposable units of production.
Arguably, the cumulative effect of this is that the working class itself has been dehumanised - now to be feared and simultaneously served up as entertainment".
Threats to personal identity, i.e. a perception of being dehumanised, objectified, stereotyped, disempowered and devalued, seem to underpin almost all reports of negative experiences of health care, as suggested by Coyle [ 24].
