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Stigma Syndemics explores the linkages of social stigmatization, structural conditions, and how these societal forces affect human health. The authors examine new areas in which biosocial health can be better understood by looking at how social and biological interactions are driven by stigma, through a syndemic framework.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Abortion Complication Syndemics: Structural Stigma, Pathologized Pregnancies, and Health Consequences of Constrained Care
Chapter 2: The Syndemic of Endometriosis, Stress and Stigma
Chapter 3: Pathologized Bodies, Embodied Stress, and Deleterious Birth Outcomes: Iatrogenic Effects of Teen Pregnancy Stigma
Chapter 4: The Multiple Stigmas of the PDI Syndemic: Poverty, "Racial"/Ethnic Discrimination, Incarceration, and Reproductive and Familial Risk
Chapter 5: Sickness in the Detention System: Syndemics of Mental Distress, Malnutrition, and Immigration Stigma in the United States
Chapter 6: Stigma Syndemic among People with Intellectual Disability who have been Incarcerated
Chapter 7: Stigma as a Driving Force in the Basic Causes of Malnutrition-Related Syndemics in Guatemala
Chapter 8: 'Toothless Maw-maw can't eat no more': Stigma and synergies of dental disease, diabetes, and psychosocial stress among low-income rural Appalachians
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Edited by Bayla Ostrach; Shir Lerman Ginzburg and Merrill Singer - Contributions by Jesse T. Young; Kate van Dooren; Sarah Raskin; Veronique A.S. Griffith; Courtney L. Everson; Pamela I. Erickson; Fernanda Claudio; Megan A. Carney; Elaine M. Bennett; Roul
Summary
Stigma Syndemics explores the linkages of social stigmatization, structural conditions, and how these societal forces affect human health. The authors examine new areas in which biosocial health can be better understood by looking at how social and biological interactions are driven by stigma, through a syndemic framework.
