Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Featuring original analyses from emerging leaders in medical sociology, this book revisits and redefines stigma in the context of health and illness, addressing its problematic legacy and expanding the area by contributing theoretical and empirical chapters to advance our understanding.
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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 Pr EP 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
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Amy Chandler is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Lecturer in Health in Social Science at The University of Edinburgh.