Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions

ISBN-13: 9781498552110 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 244 str.

Shir Lerman; Bayla Ostrach; Merrill Singer

Opis

The chapters in this volume, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. Authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics, to demonstrate both the nature of disease-disease interactions and how stigma contributes to, promotes, exacerbates, or perpetuates a syndemic. In doing so, authors also address how stigma translates from a social condition to affect biological conditions. The chapters range in topic from substance abuse, obesity, and depression, to homelessness, poverty, and political oppression.