Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Recalibrating Stigma - Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler
1. Stigma, Racism, and Mental Healthcare - Dharmi Kapadia and Maria Haarmans
2. Stigma and Sexual Arousal: Rethinking HIV-Related Stigma in the Age of PrEP and the Internet - Jaime García-Iglesias
3. The Contested Nature of Abortion Stigma: From the Individual to the Structural - Gillian Love
4. Shooting Blanks?: Exploring the Assumed Relationship Between Masculinity and Stigma in Male Fertility - Esmée Hanna, Caroline Law, and Nicky Hudson
5. On the Process of Becoming a Body Fascist: Stigma and Shame in the Moral Economy of Exercise - Kass Gibson
6. Recalibrating Anti-Stigma: Avoiding Binary Thinking and 'Destigmatisation Drift' in Public Health - Oli Williams, Amy Chandler, Gareth M. Thomas, and Tanisha Spratt
7. Readdressing Addiction Stigma: Making Space for Being in the World Differently - Fay Dennis
8. How Stigma Emerges and Mutates: The Case of Long COVID Stigma - Hannah Farrimond and Mike Michael
9. Notes on a Spoiled Working Identity: Stigma, Illness, and Disability in the Contemporary (Western) Workplace - Jennifer Remnant
10. Spoiled Identity and the Curated Self: Narrativising Stigma in Parents' Memoirs of Raising Disabled Children - Harriet Cooper
11. Studying Up: Understanding Power in Stigmatisation, Discrimination, and Health - Andy Guise, Simone Helleren, and River Újhadbor
Recalibrating Stigma: Concluding Thoughts - Tanisha Spratt, Amy Chandler, Oli Williams, and Gareth M. Thomas
