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Stigma leads to poorer health. Edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link, The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health provides compelling evidence from various disciplines in support of this thesis and explains how and why health disparities exist and persist.
Stigmatization involves distinguishing people by a socially conferred "mark," seeing them as deviant, and devaluing and socially excluding them. The core insight of this book is that the social processes of stigma reliably translate into the biology of disease and death. Contributors elucidate this insight by showing exactly how stigma negatively affects health and creates health disparities through multiple mechanisms operating at different levels of influence.
Understanding the causes and consequences of health disparities requires a multi-level analysis that considers structural forces, psychological processes, and biological mechanisms. This volume's unique multidisciplinary approach brings together social and health psychologists, sociologists, public health scholars, and medical ethicists to comprehensively assess stigma's impact on health. It goes beyond the common practice of studying one stigmatized group at a time to examine the
stigma-health link across multiple stigmatized groups. This broad, multidisciplinary framework not only illuminates the significant effects stigma has when aggregated across the health of many groups but also increases understanding of which stigma processes are general across groups and which are particular to
specific groups.
Here, a compendium of leading international experts point readers toward potential policy responses and possibilities for intervention as well as to the large gaps in understanding that remain. This book is the definitive source of scholarship on stigma and physical health for established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and students in psychology, sociology, public health, medicine, law, political science, geography, and the allied disciplines.
Contents:
Preface
Section I. Background
Chapter 1: Stigma and Its Implications for Health: Introduction and Overview
Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, Bruce G. Link, and Sarah K. Calabrese
Chapter 2: Physical Health Disparities and Stigma: Race, Sexual Orientation, and Body Weight
John F. Dovidio, Louis A. Penner, Sarah K. Calabrese and Rebecca L. Pearl
Chapter 3: Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Health Inequality
Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan and Mark L. Hatzenbuehler
Chapter 4: Power, Status, and Stigma: Their Implications for Health
Jeff Lucas, Hsiang-Yuan Ho and Kristin Kerns
Chapter 5: Stigma, Social Identity Threat and Health
Brenda Major and Toni Schmader
Chapter 6: Structural Stigma and Health
Mark L. Hatzenbuehler
Section II. Pathways from Stigma to Health
Chapter 7: Discriminating Ecologies: A Life History Approach to Stigma and Health
Steven L. Neuberg and Andreana C. Kenrick
Chapter 8: Segregation, Stigma, and Stratification: A Biosocial Model
Douglas S. Massey and Brandon Wagner
Chapter 9: Racial Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Health
Naomi Priest and David R. Williams
Chapter 10: Patient Stigma, Medical Interactions, and Healthcare Disparities: A Selective Review
Louis A. Penner, Sean M. Phelan, Valerie Earnshaw, Terrance L. Albrecht, and John F. Dovidio
Chapter 11: Interpersonal Discrimination and Physical Health
Laura Smart Richman, Elizabeth Pascoe, and Micah Lattanner
Chapter 12: Biopsychosocial Mechanisms Linking Discrimination to Health: A Focus on Social Cognition
Elizabeth Brondolo, Irene V. Blair, and Amandeep Kaur
Chapter 13: Neural and Cardiovascular Pathways from Stigma to Suboptimal Health
Belle Derks and Daan Scheepers
Chapter 14: Affective Reactions as Mediators of the Relationship between Stigma and Health
Wendy Berry Mendes and Keely A. Muscatell
Section III. Moderators of the Stigma-Health Relationship
Chapter 15: When Stigma is Concealable: The Costs and Benefits for Health
Diane M. Quinn
Chapter 16: Social Identity, Stigma and Health
Jolanda Jetten, S. Alexander Haslam, Tegan Cruwys and Nyla R. Branscombe
Chapter 17: Social Stigma and Health: An Identity-Based Motivation Perspective
Daphna Oyserman and Oliver Fisher
Chapter 18: Parenting as a Buffer that Deters Discrimination and Race-Related Stressors from"Getting Under the Skin": Theories, Findings, and Future Directions
Allen W. Barton and Gene H. Brody
Chapter 19: Perceived Racial Discrimination and Health Behavior: Mediation and Moderation
Frederick X. Gibbons and Michelle L. Stock
Chapter 20: Stigma, Health, and Individual Differences
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton and Jordan B. Leitner
Section IV. Anti-Stigma Interventions
Chapter 21: Getting Underneath the Power of "Contact": Revisiting the Fundamental Lever of Stigma as a Social Network Phenomenon
Bernice A. Pescosolido and Bianca Manago
Chapter 22: Reducing Physical Illness Stigma: Insights from the Mental Illness Arena
Patrick W. Corrigan, Andrea B. Bink, and Annie Schmidt
Chapter 23: Public Health with a Punch: Fear, Stigma, and Hard-Hitting Media Campaigns
Amy Fairchild and Ron Bayer
Chapter 24: Public Health and Social Justice: An Argument Against Stigma as a Tool of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Erika Blacksher
Section V. Bi-directional Processes in Stigma and Health
Chapter 25: Stigma and the"Social Epidemic" of HIV: Understanding Bi-Directional Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience
Stephenie R. Chaudoir and Jeffrey D. Fisher
Chapter 26: Sexual Minority Stigma and Health
John E. Pachankis and David J. Lick
Chapter 27: The Negative and Bi-Directional Effects of Weight Stigma on Health
Brenda Major, A. Janet Tomiyama and Jeffrey M. Hunger
Chapter 28: Mental and Physical Health Consequences of the Stigma Associated with Mental Illness
Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan and Greer Sullivan
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Publication date: January, 2018
Pages: 576
Dimensions: 178.00 x 261.00 x 37.00
Weight: 1174g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Practice, Public Health
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