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

, by Green; Gill

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ISBN: 9780415376259 | 0415376254
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Copyright: 4/6/2009

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This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions.

Preface	p. vii
Challenging stigma	p. 1
The changing landscape of stigma associated with long-term conditions	p. 1
Traditional images of stigma associated with long-term conditions	p. 5
Naming and defining: long-term illness, chronic illness or long-term conditions?	p. 7
What are the challenges?	p. 9
Scope and organization of the book	p. 10
Stigma: changing conceptual frameworks	p. 13
Key facets of stigma	p. 13
The production of stigma	p. 18
From deviance to oppression	p. 24
From stigma to social exclusion	p. 27
Is stigma still a meaningful concept?	p. 31
Technological, personal and organizational challenges to stigma and exclusion	p. 33
Flexible bodies and fluid identities: the technological challenge	p. 34
From loss of self to reconstructed empowered identities: the personal challenge	p. 39
From the personal to the political: the organizational challenge	p. 46
Impact: from patient to citizen	p. 52
The technological challenge to stigma: HIV and the advent of HAART	p. 54
HIV: the quintessential stigma experience of the twentieth century	p. 55
The technological challenge	p. 59
Impact of the technological challenge	p. 62
To what extent has HAART challenged stigma?	p. 70
The personal challenge to stigma: substance misuse and the construction of the moral self	p. 73
What is substance misuse?	p. 74
Substance misusers: deviant and dangerous	p. 75
The personal challenge	p. 79
Impact of the personal challenge	p. 84
Has the stigma associated with substance misuse been reduced?	p. 89
The organizational challenge to stigma: mental health services users 'reclaim Bedlam'	p. 92
Mental illness: the ultimate stigma?	p. 93
The organizational challenge	p. 100
Impact of the organizational challenge	p. 104
To what extent has political action combated the stigma of mental illness?	p. 110
Is the end of stigma associated with long-term conditions in sight?	p. 112
Key features of stigma revisited	p. 112
How effective are the challenges to stigma?	p. 115
Disentangling discrimination from disadvantage: the case of restricted opportunities of people with MS	p. 119
The end of stigma in sight?	p. 123
Notes	p. 125
References	p. 129
Index	p. 147
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The End of Stigma?: Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials