Recalibrating Stigma
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Recalibrating Stigma

Sociologies of Health and Illness

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eBook - ePub

Recalibrating Stigma

Sociologies of Health and Illness

About this book

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Stigma has long been a central concern for social scientists studying health and illness. Yet, in existing work, stigma often escapes definition and clarification, is treated as universal and constant, and becomes a vague catch-all term for a range of conditions and situations.

This book initiates a process of recalibrating the conceptualisation of stigma. The book features original analyses from early- and mid-career scholars focusing on diverse issues, including mental health, racism, sex, HIV, reproduction, obesity, eating disorders, self-harm, exercise, drug use, COVID-19, and disability.

This ambitious book offers new perspectives to stimulate and intensify conversations around stigma, and highlights the valuable contributions of sociological approaches to understanding health and illness.

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Yes, you can access Recalibrating Stigma by Gareth Thomas,Oli Williams,Tanisha Spratt,Amy Chandler in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Diseases & Allergies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: Recalibrating Stigma
  9. 1 Stigma, Racism, and Mental Healthcare
  10. 2 Stigma and Sexual Arousal: Rethinking HIV-Related Stigma in the Age of PrEP and the Internet
  11. 3 The Contested Nature of Abortion Stigma: From the Individual to the Structural
  12. 4 Shooting Blanks? Exploring the Assumed Relationship Between Masculinity and Stigma in Male Fertility
  13. 5 On the Process of Becoming a Body Fascist: Stigma and Shame in the Moral Economy of Exercise
  14. 6 Recalibrating Anti-Stigma: Avoiding Binary Thinking and ‘Destigmatisation Drift’ in Public Health
  15. 7 Readdressing Addiction Stigma: Making Space for Being in the World Differently
  16. 8 How Stigma Emerges and Mutates: The Case of Long COVID Stigma
  17. 9 Notes on a Spoiled Working Identity: Stigma, Illness, and Disability in the Contemporary (Western) Workplace
  18. 10 Spoiled Identity and the Curated Self: Narrativising Stigma in Parents’ Memoirs of Raising Disabled Children
  19. 11 Studying Up: Understanding Power in Stigmatisation, Discrimination, and Health
  20. Recalibrating Stigma: Concluding Thoughts
  21. Index