Description
Stigma leads to poorer health. Edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link, The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health provides compelling evidence from various disciplines in support of this thesis and explains how and why health disparities exist and persist.Stigmatization involves distinguishing people by a socially conferred "mark," seeing them as deviant, and devaluing and socially excluding them. The core insight of this book is that the social processes of stigma reliably translate into the biology of disease and death. Contributors elucidate this insight by showing exactly how stigma negatively affects health and creates health disparities through multiple mechanisms operating at different levels of influence.Understanding the causes and consequences of health disparities requires a multi-level analysis that considers structural forces, psychological processes, and biological mechanisms. This volume's unique multidisciplinary approach brings together social and health psychologists, sociologists, public health scholars, and medical ethicists to comprehensively assess stigma's impact on health. It goes beyond the common practice of studying one stigmatized group at a time to examine the stigma-health link across multiple stigmatized groups. This broad, multidisciplinary framework not only illuminates the significant effects stigma has when aggregated across the health of many groups but also increases understanding of which stigma processes are general across groups and which are particular to specific groups.Here, a compendium of leading international experts point readers toward potential policy responses and possibilities for intervention as well as to the large gaps in understanding that remain. This book is the definitive source of scholarship on stigma and physical health for established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and students in psychology, sociology, public health, medicine, law, political science, geography, and the allied disciplines.
Table of Contents
PrefaceSection I. BackgroundChapter 1: Stigma and Its Implications for Health: Introduction and OverviewBrenda Major, John F. Dovidio, Bruce G. Link, and Sarah K. Calabrese Chapter 2: Physical Health Disparities and Stigma: Race, Sexual Orientation, and Body WeightJohn F. Dovidio, Louis A. Penner, Sarah K. Calabrese and Rebecca L. PearlChapter 3: Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Health InequalityBruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan and Mark L. HatzenbuehlerChapter 4: Power, Status, and Stigma: Their Implications for HealthJeff Lucas, Hsiang-Yuan Ho and Kristin KernsChapter 5: Stigma, Social Identity Threat and HealthBrenda Major and Toni SchmaderChapter 6: Structural Stigma and HealthMark L. Hatzenbuehler Section II. Pathways from Stigma to HealthChapter 7: Discriminating Ecologies: A Life History Approach to Stigma and HealthSteven L. Neuberg and Andreana C. Kenrick Chapter 8: Segregation, Stigma, and Stratification: A Biosocial ModelDouglas S. Massey and Brandon WagnerChapter 9: Racial Discrimination and Racial Disparities in HealthNaomi Priest and David R. WilliamsChapter 10: Patient Stigma, Medical Interactions, and Healthcare Disparities: A Selective ReviewLouis A. Penner, Sean M. Phelan, Valerie Earnshaw, Terrance L. Albrecht, and John F. DovidioChapter 11: Interpersonal Discrimination and Physical HealthLaura Smart Richman, Elizabeth Pascoe, and Micah LattannerChapter 12: Biopsychosocial Mechanisms Linking Discrimination to Health: A Focus on Social CognitionElizabeth Brondolo, Irene V. Blair, and Amandeep Kaur Chapter 13: Neural and Cardiovascular Pathways from Stigma to Suboptimal HealthBelle Derks and Daan ScheepersChapter 14: Affective Reactions as Mediators of the Relationship between Stigma and HealthWendy Berry Mendes and Keely A. MuscatellSection III. Moderators of the Stigma-Health RelationshipChapter 15: When Stigma is Concealable: The Costs and Benefits for HealthDiane M. QuinnChapter 16: Social Identity, Stigma and HealthJolanda Jetten, S. Alexander Haslam, Tegan Cruwys and Nyla R. BranscombeChapter 17: Social Stigma and Health: An Identity-Based Motivation PerspectiveDaphna Oyserman and Oliver FisherChapter 18: Parenting as a Buffer that Deters Discrimination and Race-Related Stressors from"Getting Under the Skin": Theories, Findings, and Future DirectionsAllen W. Barton and Gene H. BrodyChapter 19: Perceived Racial Discrimination and Health Behavior: Mediation and ModerationFrederick X. Gibbons and Michelle L. StockChapter 20: Stigma, Health, and Individual DifferencesRodolfo Mendoza-Denton and Jordan B. LeitnerSection IV. Anti-Stigma InterventionsChapter 21: Getting Underneath the Power of "Contact": Revisiting the Fundamental Lever of Stigma as a Social Network PhenomenonBernice A. Pescosolido and Bianca ManagoChapter 22: Reducing Physical Illness Stigma: Insights from the Mental Illness ArenaPatrick W. Corrigan, Andrea B. Bink, and Annie SchmidtChapter 23: Public Health with a Punch: Fear, Stigma, and Hard-Hitting Media CampaignsAmy Fairchild and Ron BayerChapter 24: Public Health and Social Justice: An Argument Against Stigma as a Tool of Health Promotion and Disease PreventionErika BlacksherSection V. Bi-directional Processes in Stigma and HealthChapter 25: Stigma and the"Social Epidemic" of HIV: Understanding Bi-Directional Mechanisms of Risk and ResilienceStephenie R. Chaudoir and Jeffrey D. FisherChapter 26: Sexual Minority Stigma and HealthJohn E. Pachankis and David J. LickChapter 27: The Negative and Bi-Directional Effects of Weight Stigma on HealthBrenda Major, A. Janet Tomiyama and Jeffrey M. HungerChapter 28: Mental and Physical Health Consequences of the Stigma Associated with Mental IllnessBruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan and Greer Sullivan
