Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
‘Caught red handed’: Guilty Contagion in the 21st century
Teresa Ingleby explores the intersections of pathology and personhood in the 21st century, discussing neoliberal constructions of health, agency, and identity in self-accounts of sickness. Historically, sickness and morality have been causally entwined. Predating
Using stories to break the cycle of stigma and silence
Tim Shakespeare considers how sharing stories might help to break the silence around taboo health concerns. We’ve been conditioned by societal norms to keep certain topics – often involving our health and wellbeing –
Envisioning Disability: The Need to ‘Justify’ My Dad’s Identity
David Ellis reflects on the unspoken judgements around disability
Shame, Stigma and “Unexplained” Symptoms
Katharine Cheston discusses the isolation, disbelief and stigma experienced by people with poorly understood medical conditions Autobiographical accounts of illness tend to follow a similar script. Typically, they open with an interruption: new symptoms
‘The Invisible Injured’: Book Review
Ana Margarida Sousa Santos reviews Adam Montgomery’s The Invisible Injured: Psychological trauma in the Canadian military from the first world war to Afghanistan (McGill-Queen’s University Press: 2017). Adam Montgomery’s The Invisible Injured: Psychological trauma
Emily’s Voices by Emily Knoll reviewed by Nancy Nyquist Potter
Emily’s Voices by Emily Knoll (Knoll Publications, 2017). Reviewed by Nancy Nyquist Potter, Professor of Philosophy and Associate with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville. Emily Knoll offers
‘Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda’ reviewed by Dr Megan Wainwright
Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda edited by Susan Reynold Whyte (Duke University Press, 2014). Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda is an account of the lives of the first generation of people to experience