1st Edition
The End of Stigma? Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness
1. Challenging Stigma 2. Stigma: changing conceptual frameworks 3. Technological, personal and organizational challenges to stigma and exclusion 4. Technological challenge to stigma: HIV and the advent of HAART 5. Personal challenge to stigma: substance misuse and the construction of the moral self 6. "Reclaiming Bedlam": Organizational challenge to the stigma of mental illness 7. Is the end of stigma associated with long-term conditions in sight?
Biography
Gill Green is a Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Her main research interest is the experiential and social consequences of long-term illness.
‘Green brings the theoretical arguments surrounding the experience of stigma in people with long term illnesses right up to date. She makes excellent use of empirical research – both her own and other peoples’ – to support and contextualise her arguments. This is a very useful book for a broad range of social science students as well as those interested in the experience of long term illness in the twenty-first century. I would highly recommend it’ – Sociology of Health and Illness
