The end of stigma? : changes in the social experience of long-term illness / Gill Green.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: xi, 156 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415376242 (hbk.); 0415376246 (hbk.); 9780415376259 (pbk.); 0415376254 (pbk.); 9780203881798 (ebk); 0203881796 (ebk)Subject(s): Chronic diseases -- Social aspects | Stigma (Social psychology) | Chronic Disease -- psychology | Prejudice | StereotypingDDC classification: 306.4/61 LOC classification: RC108 | .G75 2009NLM classification: 2009 C-817 | WT 30Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-146) and index.
Challenging stigma -- Stigma : changing conceptual frameworks -- Technological, personal, and organizational challenges to stigma and exclusion -- The technological challenge to stigma : HIV and the advent of HAART -- The personal challenge to stigma : substance misuse and the construction of the moral self -- The organizational challenge to stigma: mental health services users 'reclaim Bedlam' -- Is the end of stigma associated with long-term conditions in sight?
Gill Green presents a timely contribution to understanding experiences of stigma. Centred on an analysis of a range of inter-related studies of illness and stigma, she examines the cases of HIV, multiple sclerosis and mental illness, including substance misuse, to provide new insights into stigma in health.
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