ISBN:
0415376246
,
0415376254
,
9780415376242
,
9780415376259
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 176 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The End of Stigma? : Changes in the Social Experience of Long-term Illness
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Stigma (Social psychology)
;
Chronic diseases Social aspects
Abstract:
This book examines contemporary challenges to the stigma associated with chronic illnesses, and is centred on an analysis of a range of studies on illness and stigma in HIV, multiple sclerosis, mental illness and substance misuse
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The End of Stigma?; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Challenging stigma; The changing landscape of stigma associated with long-term conditions; Traditional images of stigma associated with long-term conditions; Naming and defining: long-term illness, chronic illness or long-term conditions?; What are the challenges?; Scope and organization of the book; 2 Stigma: changing conceptual frameworks; Key facets of stigma; The production of stigma; From deviance to oppression; From stigma to social exclusion; Is stigma still a meaningful concept?
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Technological, personal and organizational challenges to stigma and exclusionFlexible bodies and fluid identities: the technological challenge; From loss of self to reconstructed empowered identities: the personal challenge; From the personal to the political: the organizational challenge; Impact: from patient to citizen; 4 The technological challenge to stigma: HIV and the advent of HAART; HIV: the quintessential stigma experience of the twentieth century; The technological challenge; Impact of the technological challenge; To what extent has HAART challenged stigma?
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The personal challenge to stigma: substance misuse and the construction of the moral selfWhat is substance misuse?; Substance misusers: deviant and dangerous; The personal challenge; Impact of the personal challenge; Has the stigma associated with substance misuse been reduced?; 6 The organizational challenge to stigma: mental health services users 'reclaim Bedlam'; Mental illness: the ultimate stigma?; The organizational challenge; Impact of the organizational challenge; To what extent has political action combated the stigma of mental illness?
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Is the end of stigma associated with long-term conditions in sight?Key features of stigma revisited; How effective are the challenges to stigma?; Disentangling discrimination from disadvantage: the case of restricted opportunities of people with MS; The end of stigma in sight?; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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