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Foundations of Biosocial Health
Stigma and Illness Interactions
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eBook - PDF
Foundations of Biosocial Health
Stigma and Illness Interactions
About this book
The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics to demonstrate both the nature of disease interactions and how stigma contributes to, promotes, exacerbates, or perpetuates a syndemic. In so doing, the authors also address how stigma translates from a social condition to various biological conditions. The authors' contributions cover a variety of topics, including HIV, substance use, obesity, depression, homelessness, poverty,and political oppression. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, and public health.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The Role of Drug User Stigmatization in the Making of Drug-Related Syndemics
- Chapter Two. Perception and Discrimination: The Biomedical Foundations of a Syndemic of Substance Abuse, Violence, and Suicide Among Aboriginal People in Ontario, Canada
- Chapter Three. Disordered Minds and Disordered Bodies: Stigma, Depression, and Obesity Syndemic in Puerto Rico
- Chapter Four. Obesity, Depression, and Weight-Related Stigma Syndemics
- Chapter Five. The PHAMILIS Stigma Syndemic Among Homeless Women
- Chapter Six. Dangerous Bodies, Unpredictable Minds: HIV/AIDS, Mental Disorders, and Stigma Syndemics in Western Kenya
- Chapter Seven. Biomedical Moralities: HIV Community Stigma and Risks for HIV/STI Syndemics
- Chapter Eight. Methamphetamine Addiction, HIV Infection, and Gay Men: Stigma and Suffering
- Conclusion
- Index
- About the Contributors