Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6567288
EditoresBrenda Major (0000-0002-2688-9464, Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara), John F Dovidio (0000-0002-6110-8344, Psychology, Yale University), Bruce G Link (0000-0001-9980-7450, Sociology, University of California, Riverside)
Año2017
Páginas576
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaOxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press, Incorporated (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190243470.001.0001
ISBN9780190243470
Open LibraryOL30591247M
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas191

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

Discrimination · Stigma (Social psychology · Health expectancy · Health Status Disparities · Stigma (social psychology)