Foundations of Biosocial Health - Stigma and Illness Interactions

In this collection, researchers examine areas in which biosocial health can be better understood through a syndemic framework by looking at how social and biological interactions are driven by stigma.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Role of Drug User Stigmatization in the Making of Drug-Related Syndemics
Chapter 2: Perception and Discrimination: The Biomedical Foundations of a Syndemic of Substance Abuse, Violence and Suicide Among Aboriginal People in Ontario, Canada
Chapter 3: Disordered Minds and Disordered Bodies: Stigma, Depression, & Obesity Syndemic in Puerto Rico
Chapter 4: Obesity, Depression, and Weight-Related Stigma Syndemics
Chapter 5: The PHAMILIS Stigma Syndemic among Homeless Women
Chapter 6: Dangerous Bodies, Unpredictable Minds: HIV/AIDS, Mental Disorders, and Stigma Syndemics in Western Kenya
Chapter 7: Biomedical Moralities: HIV Community Stigma and Risks for HIV/STI Syndemics
Chapter 8: Methamphetamine Addiction, HIV infection, and Gay Men: Stigma and Suffering

About the author

Edited by Shir Lerman Ginzburg; Bayla Ostrach and Merrill Singer - Contributions by Nicholas Emard; Theodore Gideonse; Seung Yong Han; Shir Lerman Ginzburg; Harrison M.K. Maithya; Ruthanne Marcus; Gerald McKinley; Bayla Ostrach; Mary A. Ott; Elizabeth J.

Summary

In this collection, researchers examine areas in which biosocial health can be better understood through a syndemic framework by looking at how social and biological interactions are driven by stigma.

Product details

• Authors: Shir Ostrach Lerman, Shir Ostrach Lerman Ginzburg, James Ziegler
• Assisted by: Shir Lerman (Editor), Shir Lerman Ginzburg (Editor), Bayla Ostrach (Editor), Ostrach Bayla (Editor), Merrill Singer (Editor), Singer Merrill (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781498552110
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5211-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Anthropology, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Politics & government, Sociology & anthropology, Biosocial Health;Stigma Syndemics