Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness

Author:   Andrew Guise (King’s College London) ,  Simone Helleren (King's College London) ,  River Ujhadbor (King's College London) ,  Fay Dennis (University of London)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
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9781529235821


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   16 June 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Stigma has long been a central concern for social scientists studying health and illness. Yet, in existing work, stigma often escapes definition and clarification, is treated as universal and constant, and becomes a vague catch-all term for a range of conditions and situations. This book initiates a process of recalibrating the conceptualisation of stigma. The book features original analyses from early- and mid-career scholars focusing on diverse issues, including mental health, racism, sex, HIV, reproduction, obesity, eating disorders, self-harm, exercise, drug use, COVID-19 and disability. This ambitious book offers new perspectives to stimulate and intensify conversations around stigma, and highlights the valuable contributions of sociological approaches to the study of health and illness.

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Author:   Andrew Guise (King’s College London) ,  Simone Helleren (King's College London) ,  River Ujhadbor (King's College London) ,  Fay Dennis (University of London)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781529235821


ISBN 10:   1529235820
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   16 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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“This is a must-read contribution to the sociology of stigma in the health field. Admirably edited, it covers multiple facets of stigma and stigmatisation in novel, subtle and illuminating ways.” Graham Scambler, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University College London and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences “In Recalibrating Stigma, Thomas, Williams, Spratt and Chandler take on the vital and timely task of creating more precision around a central yet slippery sociological construct. The effort is important to almost every aspect of health as their myriad cases show, demonstrating why we must better connect individual experiences to wider, powerful forces in which stigma – and the suffering it so powerfully engenders – is created and reproduced."" Alexandra Brewis, Arizona State University


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Gareth M. Thomas is Reader in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Oli Williams is Lecturer in Co-designing Healthcare Interventions at King’s College London. Tanisha Spratt is Senior Lecturer in Racism and Health at King’s College London. Amy Chandler is Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness at the University of Edinburgh.

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