The End of Stigma? : Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness

This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions.Behaviour, lifestyle and identity are no longer the results of mass-production by social class and nation, but increasingly the quirky and unique eccentricities of the individual as consumer, reflexive citizen and free agent. But if the hallmark of the post-modern world is endless variety and unlimited sub-cultural freedom, should we not be witnessing'The End of Stigma'? The book takes Fukuyama's notion of'The End of History'and examines contemporary challenges to the stigma associated with chronic illness. Award-winning author Gill Green examines cases of HIV, mental illness and substance misuse, to provide new insights into stigma in health. She demonstrates that people with long-term conditions refuse to be defined by their condition and highlights their increasingly powerful voice. The End of Stigma? will be of interest to a wide range of students and health professionals in medical sociology, health studies and social care. Gill Green Presents A Timely Contribution To Understanding Experiences Of Stigma. Centred On An Analysis Of A Range Of Inter-related Studies Of Illness And Stigma, She Examines The Cases Of Hiv, Multiple Sclerosis And Mental Illness, Including Substance Misuse, To Provide New Insights Into Stigma In Health. Challenging Stigma -- Stigma : Changing Conceptual Frameworks -- Technological, Personal, And Organizational Challenges To Stigma And Exclusion -- The Technological Challenge To Stigma : Hiv And The Advent Of Haart -- The Personal Challenge To Stigma : Substance Misuse And The Construction Of The Moral Self -- The Organizational Challenge To Stigma: Mental Health Services Users 'reclaim Bedlam' -- Is The End Of Stigma Associated With Long-term Conditions In Sight? Gill Green. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [129]-146) And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 1 Challenging stigma......Page 14 2 Stigma: Changing conceptual frameworks......Page 26 3 Technological, personal and organizational challenges to stigma and exclusion......Page 46 4 The technological challenge to stigma: HIV and the advent of HAART......Page 67 5 The personal challenge to stigma: Substance misuse and the construction of the moral self......Page 86 6 The organizational challenge to stigma: Mental health service users ‘reclaim Bedlam’......Page 105 7 Is the end of stigma associated with long-term conditions in sight?......Page 125 Notes......Page 138 References......Page 142 Index......Page 160 Challenging stigma -- Stigma : changing conceptual frameworks -- Technological, personal, and organizational challenges to stigma and exclusion -- Technological challenge to stigma : HIV and the advent of HAART -- Personal challenge to stigma : substance misuse and the construction of the moral -- Self -- 'Reclaiming Bedlam' : organizational challenge to the stigma of mental illness -- Is the end of stigma associated with long-term conditions in sight?