Bookedited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, Bruce G. Link.
Summary: This volume's unique multidisciplinary approach brings together social and health psychologists, sociologists, public health scholars, and medical ethicists to comprehensively assess stigma's impact on health. It goes beyond the common practice of studying one stigmatized group at a time to examine the stigma-health link across multiple stigmatized groups. This broad, multidisciplinary framework not only illuminates the significant effects stigma has when aggregated across the health of many groups but also increases understanding of which stigma processes are general across groups and which are particular to specific groups. Here, a compendium of leading international experts point readers toward potential policy responses and possibilities for intervention as well as to the large gaps in understanding that remain.
Contents:
Part one. Background
Stigma and its implications for health : introduction and overview / Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, Bruce G. Link, and Sarah K. Calabrese
Physical health disparities and stigma : race, sexual orientation, and body weight / John F. Dovidio, Louis A. Penner, Sarah K. Calabrese, and Rebecca L. Pearl
Stigma as a fundamental cause of health inequality / Bruce G. Link, Jo c. Phelan, and Mark L. Hatzenbuehler
Power, status, and stigma : their implications for health / Jeffrey W. Lucas, Hsiang-Yuan Ho, and Kristin Kerns
Stigma, social identity threat, and health / Brenda Major and Toni Schmader
Structural stigma and health / Mark L. Hatzenbuehler
Part two. Pathways from stigma to health
Discriminating ecologies : a life history approach to stigma and health / Steven L. Neuberg and Andreana C. Kenrick
Segregation, stigma, and stratification : a biosocial model / Douglas S. Massey and Brandon Wagner
Racial discrimination and racial disparities in health / Naomi Priest and David R. Williams
Patient stigma, medical interactions, and health care disparities : a selective review / Louis A. Penner, Sean M. Phelan, Valerie Earnshaw, Terrance L. Albrecht, and John F. Dovidio
Interpersonal discrimination and physical health / Laura S. Richman, Elizabeth Pascoe, and Micah Lattanner
Biopsychosocial mechanisms linking discrimination to health : a focus on social cognition / Elizabeth Brondolo, Irene V. Blair, and Amandeep Kaur
Neural and cardiovascular pathways from stigma to suboptimal health / Belle Derks and Daan Scheepers
Affective reactions as mediators of the relationship between stigma and health / Wendy Berry Mendes and Keely A. Muscatell
Part three. Moderators of the stigma-health relationship
When stigma is concealable : the costs and benefits for health / Diane M. Quinn
Social identity, stigma, and health / Jolanda Jetten, S. Alexander Haslam, Tegan Cruwys, and Nyla R. Branscombe
Social stigma and health : an identity-based motivation perspective / Daphna Oyserman and Oliver Fisher
Parenting as a buffer that deters discrimination and race-related stressors from getting under the skin : theories, findings, and future directions / Allen W. Barton and Gene H. Brody
Perceived racial discrimination and health behavior : mediation and moderation / Frederick X. Gibbons and Michelle L. Stock
Stigma, health, and individual differences / Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton and Jordan B. Leiner
Part four. Anti-stigma interventions
Getting underneath the power of contact : revisiting the fundamental level of stigma as a social network phenomenon / Bernice A. Pescosolido and Bianca Manago
Reducing physical illness stigma : insights from the mental illness arena / Patrick W. Corrigan, Andrea B. Bink, and Annie Schmidt
Public health with a punch : fear, stigma, and hard-hitting media campaigns / Amy L. Fairchild and Ronald Bayer
Public health and social justice : an argument against stigma as a tool of health promotion and disease prevention / Erika Blacksher
Part five. Bidirectional processes in stigma and health
Stigma and the social epidemic of HIV : understanding bidirectional mechanisms of risk and resilience / Stephenie R. Chaudoir and Jeffrey D. Fisher
Sexual minority stigma and health / John E. Pachankis and David J. Lick
The negative and bidirectional effects of weight stigma on health / Brenda Major, A. Janet Tomiyama, and Jeffrey M. Hunger
Mental and physical health consequences of the stigma associated with mental illnesses / Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan, and Greer Sullivan.