The End of Stigma? : Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness

ISBN-13: 9780415376242 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 176 str.

Green Gill

Opis

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.

Recenzje

‘Green brings the theoretical arguments surrounding the experience of stigma in people with long term illnesses right up to date. She makes excellent use of empirical research – both her own and other peoples’ – to support and contextualise her arguments. This is a very useful book for a broad range of social science students as well as those interested in the experience of long term illness in the twenty-first century. I would highly recommend it’ – Sociology of Health and Illness

O autorze

Gill Green is a Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Her main research interest is the experiential and social consequences of long-term illness.