Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780190243470
Subjects: Stigma (social psychology); Discrimination
Description: 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.