Preface
Section I. Background
Chapter 1: Stigma and Its Implications for Health: Introduction and
Overview
Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, Bruce G. Link, and Sarah K.
Calabrese
Chapter 2: Physical Health Disparities and Stigma: Race, Sexual
Orientation, and Body Weight
John F. Dovidio, Louis A. Penner, Sarah K. Calabrese and Rebecca L.
Pearl
Chapter 3: Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Health Inequality
Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan and Mark L. Hatzenbuehler
Chapter 4: Power, Status, and Stigma: Their Implications for
Health
Jeff Lucas, Hsiang-Yuan Ho and Kristin Kerns
Chapter 5: Stigma, Social Identity Threat and Health
Brenda Major and Toni Schmader
Chapter 6: Structural Stigma and Health
Mark L. Hatzenbuehler
Section II. Pathways from Stigma to Health
Chapter 7: Discriminating Ecologies: A Life History Approach to
Stigma and Health
Steven L. Neuberg and Andreana C. Kenrick
Chapter 8: Segregation, Stigma, and Stratification: A Biosocial
Model
Douglas S. Massey and Brandon Wagner
Chapter 9: Racial Discrimination and Racial Disparities in
Health
Naomi Priest and David R. Williams
Chapter 10: Patient Stigma, Medical Interactions, and Healthcare
Disparities: A Selective Review
Louis A. Penner, Sean M. Phelan, Valerie Earnshaw, Terrance L.
Albrecht, and John F. Dovidio
Chapter 11: Interpersonal Discrimination and Physical Health
Laura Smart Richman, Elizabeth Pascoe, and Micah Lattanner
Chapter 12: Biopsychosocial Mechanisms Linking Discrimination to
Health: A Focus on Social Cognition
Elizabeth Brondolo, Irene V. Blair, and Amandeep Kaur
Chapter 13: Neural and Cardiovascular Pathways from Stigma to
Suboptimal Health
Belle Derks and Daan Scheepers
Chapter 14: Affective Reactions as Mediators of the Relationship
between Stigma and Health
Wendy Berry Mendes and Keely A. Muscatell
Section III. Moderators of the Stigma-Health Relationship
Chapter 15: When Stigma is Concealable: The Costs and Benefits for
Health
Diane M. Quinn
Chapter 16: Social Identity, Stigma and Health
Jolanda Jetten, S. Alexander Haslam, Tegan Cruwys and Nyla R.
Branscombe
Chapter 17: Social Stigma and Health: An Identity-Based Motivation
Perspective
Daphna Oyserman and Oliver Fisher
Chapter 18: 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
Chapter 19: Perceived Racial Discrimination and Health Behavior:
Mediation and Moderation
Frederick X. Gibbons and Michelle L. Stock
Chapter 20: Stigma, Health, and Individual Differences
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton and Jordan B. Leitner
Section IV. Anti-Stigma Interventions
Chapter 21: Getting Underneath the Power of "Contact": Revisiting
the Fundamental Lever of Stigma as a Social Network Phenomenon
Bernice A. Pescosolido and Bianca Manago
Chapter 22: Reducing Physical Illness Stigma: Insights from the
Mental Illness Arena
Patrick W. Corrigan, Andrea B. Bink, and Annie Schmidt
Chapter 23: Public Health with a Punch: Fear, Stigma, and
Hard-Hitting Media Campaigns
Amy Fairchild and Ron Bayer
Chapter 24: Public Health and Social Justice: An Argument Against
Stigma as a Tool of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Erika Blacksher
Section V. Bi-directional Processes in Stigma and Health
Chapter 25: Stigma and the"Social Epidemic" of HIV: Understanding
Bi-Directional Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience
Stephenie R. Chaudoir and Jeffrey D. Fisher
Chapter 26: Sexual Minority Stigma and Health
John E. Pachankis and David J. Lick
Chapter 27: The Negative and Bi-Directional Effects of Weight
Stigma on Health
Brenda Major, A. Janet Tomiyama and Jeffrey M. Hunger
Chapter 28: Mental and Physical Health Consequences of the Stigma
Associated with Mental Illness
Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan and Greer Sullivan
Brenda Major received her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1998. She
is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of
Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. Her scholarship focuses on the social psychology of
stigma and inequality. Her research interests include the
psychological and physiological impact of prejudice and
discrimination, how cultural ideologies shape entitlement and
reactions to
social inequality, the social and psychological impact of
increasing ethnic diversity, and the psychology of resilience.
John F. (Jack) Dovidio, who received his Ph.D. from the University
of Delaware in 1977, is currently the Carl Iver Hovland Professor
of Psychology and Public Health, as well as Dean of Academic
Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at Yale University.
His research interests are in stereotyping, prejudice, and
discrimination; social power and nonverbal communication; and
altruism and helping. His scholarship focuses on understanding the
dynamics of intergroup relations
and ways to reduce intergroup bias and conflict.
Bruce Link is Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University. His
interests are centered on topics in psychiatric and social
epidemiology as they bear on policy issues. He has written on the
connection between socioeconomic status and health, homelessness,
violence, stigma, and discrimination. With Jo Phelan, he has
advanced the theory of social conditions as fundamental causes of
disease. Currently he is conducting research on the life course
origins of health inequalities
by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, the consequences of
social stigma for the life chances of people who are subject to
stigma, and on evaluating intervention efforts aimed at reducing
mental illness stigma in
children attending middle school.
"This volume collects important work on the impact of stigma on all
aspects of health. Beginning with definitions of stigma and its
relation to the social determinants of health, the authors focus on
the varying forms of stigma and their relevance to the landscape of
power, economics, and social status in particular groups and
societies...Comprehensive, and replete with chapter references,
this handbook represents a timely, multidisciplinary contribution
to the
field of stigma and health." --CHOICE
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