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Stigma Syndemics
New Directions in Biosocial Health
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2017
Summary
Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of interaction between biological and social aspects of chronic and acute suffering in populations. While much research to date addresses known syndemics such as those involving HIV, diabetes, and mental illness, this book explores new directions just beginning to emerge in syndemics research – revealing what syndemics theory can illuminate about, for example the health consequences of socially pathologized pregnancy or infertility, when stigmatization of reproductive options or experiences affect women’s health. In other chapters, newly identified syndemics affecting incarcerated or detained individuals are highlighted, demonstrating the physical, psychological, structural, and political-economic effects of stigmatizing legal frameworks on human health, through a syndemic lens. Elsewhere in the volume, scholars examine the stigma of poverty and how it affects both nutritional and oral health. The common thread across all chapters is linkages of social stigmatization, structural conditions, and how these societal forces drive biological and disease interactions affecting human health, in areas not previously explored through these lenses.
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Edition
1/2017
Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-5214-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-5215-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
229
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
1 Abortion Complication Syndemics No access Pages 1 - 34
2 The Syndemic of Endometriosis, Stress, and Stigma No access Pages 35 - 60
3 Pathologized Pregnancies and Deleterious Health Outcomes No access Pages 61 - 94
4 The Multiple Stigmas of the PDI Syndemic No access Pages 95 - 118
5 Sickness in the Detention System No access Pages 119 - 140
6 Stigma Syndemic among People with Intellectual Disability Who Have Been Incarcerated No access Pages 141 - 168
7 Exploring the Role of Stigma in Malnutrition-Related Syndemics No access Pages 169 - 192
8 “Toothless Maw-maw can’t eat no more” No access Pages 193 - 216
