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Lazy, crazy, and disgusting : (Record no. 88130)

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fixed length control field 190301s2019 mdua c b 001 0 eng
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ISBN 9781421433356
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Classification number W 260
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Personal author Brewis, Alexandra
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Title Lazy, crazy, and disgusting :
Subtitle stigma and the undoing of global health
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Baltimore :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2019
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Physical description ix, 270p
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Abstract How stigma derails well-intentioned public health efforts, creating suffering and worsening inequalities.<br/><br/>Winner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize by the British Sociological Association, Carol R. Ember Book Prize by the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Human Biology Association Book Award by the Human Biology Association<br/><br/>Stigma is a dehumanizing process, where shaming and blaming are embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within society. In Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting, medical anthropologists Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich explore a darker side of public health: that well-intentioned public health campaigns can create new and damaging stigma, even when they are otherwise successful.<br/><br/>Brewis and Wutich present a novel, synthetic argument about how stigmas act as a massive driver of global disease and suffering, killing or sickening billions every year. They focus on three of the most complex, difficult-to-fix global health efforts: bringing sanitation to all, treating mental illness, and preventing obesity. They explain how and why humans so readily stigmatize, how this derails ongoing public health efforts, and why this process invariably hurts people who are already at risk. They also explore how new stigmas enter global health so easily and consider why destigmatization is so very difficult. Finally, the book offers potential solutions that may be able to prevent, challenge, and fix stigma. Stigma elimination, Brewis and Wutich conclude, must be recognized as a necessary and core component of all global health efforts.<br/><br/>Drawing on the authors' keen observations and decades of fieldwork, Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting combines a wide array of ethnographic evidence from around the globe to demonstrate conclusively how stigma undermines global health's basic goals to create both health and justice.
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Subject term Global Health
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Subject term Social sigma
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Subject term Attitude to health
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Subject term Obesity
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Subject term Mental disorders
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Added personal author Wutich, Amber
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