Screen LibraryLazy, crazy, and disgusting : stigma and the undoing of global health /
Stigma is a dehumanizing process, a method of shaming and blaming that is 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 another side of the issue: the startling fact tha...
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stigma is a dehumanizing process, a method of shaming and blaming that is 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 another side of the issue: the startling fact that well-intentioned public health campaigns can create new and sometimes damaging stigma, even when they are successful. 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. 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. -- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781421433356 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 1421433354 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | RA441 |
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R31 R199 |
| Call Number: | R199/B847 |
| Contents: | Dealing with defecation -- Dirty things, disgusting people -- Dirty and disempowered -- Fat, bad, and everywhere -- The tyranny of weight judgment -- World war o -- Once crazy, always crazy -- The myth of the destigmatized society -- Completely depressing. |