Recalibrating Stigma

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.

“A very impressive and original body of work. This collection is a state-of-the-art contribution to the sociology of stigma and to the ways in which it is now to be theorised and retheorised. Admirably edited, it covers multiple facets of stigma and stigmatisation in novel, subtle and illuminating ways. It will become a much-cited text within the sociology of health and illness, and further afield too.” Graham Scambler Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University College London, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

• Introduction: Recalibrating Stigma - Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler1. Stigma, Racism, and Mental Healthcare - Dharmi Kapadia and Maria Haarmans2. Stigma and Sexual Arousal: Rethinking HIV-Related Stigma in the Age of PrEP and the Internet - Jaime García-Iglesias3. The Contested Nature of Abortion Stigma: From the Individual to the Structural - Gillian Love4. Shooting Blanks?: Exploring the Assumed Relationship Between Masculinity and Stigma in Male Fertility - Esmée Hanna, Caroline Law, and Nicky Hudson5. On the Process of Becoming a Body Fascist: Stigma and Shame in the Moral Economy of Exercise - Kass Gibson6. Recalibrating Anti-Stigma: Avoiding Binary Thinking and ‘Destigmatisation Drift’ in Public Health - Oli Williams, Amy Chandler, Gareth M. Thomas, and Tanisha Spratt7. Readdressing Addiction Stigma: Making Space for Being in the World Differently - Fay Dennis8. How Stigma Emerges and Mutates: The Case of Long COVID Stigma - Hannah Farrimond and Mike Michael9. Notes on a Spoiled Working Identity: Stigma, Illness, and Disability in the Contemporary (Western) Workplace - Jennifer Remnant10. Spoiled Identity and the Curated Self: Narrativising Stigma in Parents’ Memoirs of Raising Disabled Children - Harriet Cooper11. Studying Up: Understanding Power in Stigmatisation, Discrimination, and Health - Andy Guise, Simone Helleren, and River ÚjhadborRecalibrating Stigma: Concluding Thoughts - Tanisha Spratt, Amy Chandler, Oli Williams, and Gareth M. Thomas