Recalibrating Stigma
Sociologies of Health and Illness
Edited by Gareth Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt and Amy Chandler
Published
Jun 16, 2025Page count
240 pagesISBN
978-1529235821Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jun 16, 2025Page count
240 pagesISBN
978-1529235845Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jun 16, 2025Page count
240 pagesISBN
978-1529235838Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Gareth Thomas is Reader in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.
Amy Chandler is Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness at the University of Edinburgh.
Oli Williams is Lecturer in Co-designing Healthcare Interventions at King’s College London.
Tanisha Spratt is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Greenwich.
Introduction: Recalibrating Stigma - Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler
1. Stigma, Racism, and Mental Healthcare - Dharmi Kapadia and Maria Haarmans
2. Stigma and Sexual Arousal: Rethinking HIV-Related Stigma in the Age of PrEP and the Internet - Jaime García-Iglesias
3. The Contested Nature of Abortion Stigma: From the Individual to the Structural - Gillian Love
4. Shooting Blanks?: Exploring the Assumed Relationship Between Masculinity and Stigma in Male Fertility - Esmée Hanna, Caroline Law, and Nicky Hudson
5. On the Process of Becoming a Body Fascist: Stigma and Shame in the Moral Economy of Exercise - Kass Gibson
6. Recalibrating Anti-stigma: Avoiding Binary Thinking and ‘Destigmatisation Drift’ in Public Health - Oli Williams, Amy Chandler, Gareth M. Thomas, and Tanisha Spratt
7. Readdressing Addiction Stigma: Making Space for Being in the World Differently - Fay Dennis
8. How Stigma Emerges and Mutates: The Case of Long COVID Stigma - Hannah Farrimond and Mike Michael
9. Notes on a Spoiled Working Identity: Stigma, Illness, and Disability in the Contemporary (Western) Workplace - Jennifer Remnant
10. Spoiled Identity and the Curated Self: Narrativising Stigma in Parents’ Memoirs of Raising Disabled Children - Harriet Cooper
11. Studying Up: Understanding Power in Stigmatisation, Discrimination, and Health - Andy Guise, Simone Helleren, and River Újhadbor
Recalibrating stigma: Concluding Thoughts - Tanisha Spratt, Amy Chandler, Oli Williams, and Gareth M. Thomas
