Chapter 1: The Role of Drug User Stigmatization in the Making of
Drug-Related Syndemics
Chapter 2: Perception and Discrimination: The Biomedical
Foundations of a Syndemic of Substance Abuse, Violence and Suicide
Among Aboriginal People in Ontario, Canada
Chapter 3: Disordered Minds and Disordered Bodies: Stigma,
Depression, & Obesity Syndemic in Puerto Rico
Chapter 4: Obesity, Depression, and Weight-Related Stigma
Syndemics
Chapter 5: The PHAMILIS Stigma Syndemic among Homeless Women
Chapter 6: Dangerous Bodies, Unpredictable Minds: HIV/AIDS, Mental
Disorders, and Stigma Syndemics in Western Kenya
Chapter 7: Biomedical Moralities: HIV Community Stigma and Risks
for HIV/STI Syndemics
Chapter 8: Methamphetamine Addiction, HIV infection, and Gay Men:
Stigma and Suffering
Shir Lerman is postdoctoral fellow in Prevention and Control of
Cancer
Training in Implementation Science (PRACCTIS) at the University of
Massachusetts
Medical School.
Bayla Ostrach is appointed in the Department of Family Medicine and
affiliated
with the Master's of Science in Medical Anthropology and
Cross-Cultural Practice
program (MACCP) at Boston University School of Medicine.
Merrill Singer is professor in the Departments of Anthropology
and
Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut and senior
research
scientist at the University of Connecticut’s Institute for
Collaboration on Health,
Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP).
In content this volume is clear and thematically coherent.... [T]
he authors are to be congratulated on their international
perspective.... This volume makes a persuasive case for the
expansion of research into this area. This book would be of
particular interest to those familiar with the theoretical
traditions on which it is founded. With its substantial theoretical
content, this text would be most useful to scholars and
postgraduate students who are interested in research that focuses
on the intersections of contemporary social theory, health and
illness and medical sociology. I eagerly await the next instalment
in this volume.
*Sociology of Health & Illness*
In Foundations of Biosocial Health the role of stigma as a powerful
and enduring social-structural factor in health is highlighted and
underscored. Through eloquent case studies on substance abuse,
obesity, and HIV/AIDS, the authors discuss how the
psychological and emotional scarring of stigmatization can result
on poor physical and mental health, and that health is ultimately
best understood by using a framework that examines the
interactions between human biology and the social environment.
Given that recent research is showing the linkage between racism
(and discrimination) and adverse health, this book is timely and
highly informative.
*David Himmelgreen, University of South Florida*
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