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Fat shame: Stigma and the fat body in American culture. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
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Farrell, Amy Erdman. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture. New York University Press, 2011.
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Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma. NYU Press, 2014.
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Whitesel, Jason. Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma. New York University Press, 2014.
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Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma (Intersections). NYU Press, 2014.
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Friedman, May, Jen Rinaldi, Emily R. M. Lind, Crystal Kotow, and Tracy Tidgwell. Future Is Fat: Theorizing Time in Relation to Body Weight and Stigma. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Friedman, May, Jen Rinaldi, Emily R. M. Lind, Crystal Kotow, and Tracy Tidgwell. Future Is Fat: Theorizing Time in Relation to Body Weight and Stigma. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Friedman, May, Jen Rinaldi, Emily R. M. Lind, Crystal Kotow, and Tracy Tidgwell. Future Is Fat: Theorizing Time in Relation to Body Weight and Stigma. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Neuberg, Steven L., and Andreana C. Kenrick. Discriminating Ecologies: A Life History Approach to Stigma and Health. Edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190243470.013.5.
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How does being discriminated against affect one’s health, and through what mechanisms? Most research has focused on two causal pathways, highlighting how discrimination increases psychological stress and exposure to neighborhood hazards. This chapter advances an alternative, complementary set of mechanisms through which stigma and discrimination may shape health. Grounded in evolutionary biology’s life history theory, the framework holds that discrimination alters aspects of the physical and social ecologies in which people live (e.g., sex ratio, unpredictable extrinsic causes of mortality). These discriminating ecologies pull for specific behaviors and physiological responses (e.g., risk-taking, sexual activity, offspring care, fat storage) that are active, strategic, and rational given the threats and opportunities afforded by these ecologies but that also have downstream implications for health. This framework generates a wide range of nuanced insights and unique hypotheses about the discrimination-health relationship, and suggests specific approaches to intervention while pointing to complex ethical issues.
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Saguy, Abigail C. Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931650.001.0001.
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This book examines how and why people use the concept of coming out as a certain kind of person to resist stigma and collectively mobilize for social change. It examines how the concept of coming out has taken on different meanings as people adopt it for varying purposes—across time, space, and social context. Most other books about coming out—whether fiction, academic, or memoir—focus on the experience of gay men and lesbians in the United States. This is the first book to examine how a variety of people and groups use the concept of coming out in new and creative ways to resist stigma and mobilize for social change. It examines how the use of coming out among American lesbians, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) people has shifted over time. It also examines how four diverse US social movements—including the fat acceptance movement, undocumented immigrant youth movement, the plural-marriage family movement among Mormon fundamentalist polygamists, and the #MeToo movement—have employed the concept of coming out to advance their cause. Doing so sheds light on these particular struggles for social recognition, while illuminating broader questions regarding social change, cultural meaning, and collective mobilization.
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Collins, Rebecca, Jennifer Cerully, Eunice Wong, Shari Golan, Jennifer Yu, and Gabrielle Filip-Crawford. What Has the Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Initiative Done So Far? Year 1 Findings. RAND Corporation, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.7249/rb9756.
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Hasan, Zoya, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Vidhu Verma, eds. The Empire of Disgust. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199487837.001.0001.
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All known societies exclude and stigmatize one or more minority groups. Frequently these exclusions are underwritten with a rhetoric of disgust: people of a certain group, it is alleged, are filthy, hyper-animal, or not fit to share such facilities as drinking water, food, and public swimming pools with the ‘clean’ and ‘fully human’ majority. But exclusions vary in their scope and also in the specific disgust-ideologies underlying them. In this volume, interdisciplinary scholars from the United States and India present a detailed comparative study of the varieties of prejudice and stigma that pervade contemporary social and political life: prejudice along the axes of caste, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, transgender, disability, religion, and economic class. In examining these forms of stigma and their intersections, the authors present theoretically pluralistic and empirically sensitive accounts that both explain group-based stigma and suggest ways forward. These forward-looking remedies, including group resistance to subordination as well as institutional and legal change, point the way towards a public culture that is informed by our diverse histories of discrimination and therefore equipped to eliminate stigma in all of its multifaceted forms.
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Lawreniuk, Sabina, and Laurie Parsons. Going Nowhere Fast. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859505.001.0001.
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This book sets out to answer a question of global importance: how does inequality persist in our increasingly mobile world? It is a contentious problem. From Barack Obama to Pope Francis, inequality is often referred to as the greatest threat to our democracy, society and economy. Yet in an era some call the ‘age of migration’, opportunity has apparently never been more accessible. Long and short distance transport—from motorbikes to aeroplanes—are available to more people than ever before. What’s more, physical mobility tells only part of the story. Telecommunications have transformed our lives, ushering in an era of translocality, in which the behaviour of people and communities are influenced from hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. Nevertheless, amidst ever more complex flows of people, ideas, and capital, persistent inequality cuts a jarringly static figure. The worst off all too often remain impervious to the winds of economic dynamism, whilst those who were better off in one place remain so in another. This is an age-old story enmeshed in modern complexities. The vast economic successes of India and China have redrawn the map of global poverty in recent decades, contributing to falling inequality between countries even as inequality within countries is on the rise. Scale, in other words, matters and this book sets out to show why. Eschewing the international cross-sectional analysis employed in others on the topic of inequality, in favour of a deep dive approach to its subject, its eight chapters bring together a decade of research across multiple contexts to cast a forensic eye over the many of faces of inequality in a rapidly changing environment. Tracing a “miraculous” decade of development in Cambodia, one of the world’s fastest growing economies since the turn of the millennium, it brings together a broad toolbox of data to make a case for inequality not as an economic phenomenon, but as a ‘total social fact’ in which stories, stigma, obligation, and assets combine to lock social structures in place.
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Carter, Adrian, and Wayne Hall. Looking to the future: Clinical and policy implications of the brain disease model of addiction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786832.003.0025.
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The increasing recognition of addiction as a brain disease promises to significantly improve clinical treatment, reduce the stigma and discrimination aimed at people with an addiction, increase treatment funding and access, and discourage the use of punitive responses. This chapter argues that the brain disease model of addiction is not supported by the evidence sought in laboratories worldwide, and has failed to provide the clinical, social, and public policy benefits espoused by its proponents. Treating addiction solely as a brain disease may in fact reduce treatment-seeking, increase stigma, and focus attention on the medical treatment of addiction at the expense of more broadly effective public health policies that reduce the harms of drug use. The neuroscience research of addiction needs to be framed in a way that both accurately reflects the impact of drug use on the brain and communicated in a way that realizes the clinical and social benefits while eschewing avoidable harms.
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Muessig, Carolyn. The Stigmata in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795643.001.0001.
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Francis of Assisi’s reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is often considered to be the first account of an individual receiving the five wounds of Christ. The thirteenth-century appearance of this miracle, however, is not as unexpected as it first seems. Interpretations of Galatians 6:17—I bear the stigmata of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body—had been circulating in biblical commentaries since late antiquity. These works explained stigmata as wounds that martyrs received, like the apostle Paul, in their attempt to spread Christianity in the face of resistance. By the seventh century, stigmata were described as marks of Christ that priests received invisibly at their ordination. In the eleventh century, monks and nuns were perceived as bearing the stigmata in so far as they lived a life of renunciation out of love for Christ. By the later Middle Ages holy women like Catherine of Siena (d. 1380) were more frequently described as having stigmata than their male counterparts. With the religious upheavals of the sixteenth century, the way stigmata were defined reflected the diverse perceptions of Christianity held by Catholics and Protestants. This study traces the birth and evolution of religious stigmata as expressed in theological discussions and devotional practices in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the early seventeenth century. It also contains an introductory overview of the historiography of religious stigmata beginning in the second half of the seventeenth century to its treatment and assessment in the twenty-first century.
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Fox, Dov. Birth Rights and Wrongs. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675721.001.0001.
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Today, tens of millions of Americans rely on reproductive advances to help them carry out decisions more personal and far-reaching than almost any other they will ever make: They use birth control or abortion to delay or avoid having children; surrogacy or tissue donation to start or grow a family; and genetic diagnosis or embryo selection to have offspring who survive and flourish. This is no less than the medicine of miracles: It fills empty cradles; frees families from debilitating disease; and empowers them to plan a life that doesn’t include parenthood. But accidents happen: Embryologists miss ailments; egg vendors switch donors; obstetricians tell pregnant women their healthy fetuses will be stillborn. The aftermaths can last a lifetime, yet political and economic forces conspire against regulation to prevent negligence from happening in the first place. After the fact, social stigma and lawyers’ fees stave off lawsuits, and legal relief is a long shot: Judges and juries are reluctant to designate reproductive losses as worthy of redress when mix-ups foist parenthood on patients who didn’t want it, or childlessness on those who did. Some courts insist that babies are blessings, planned or not; others shrug over the fact that infertile couples weren’t assured offspring anyway. The result is a society that lets badly behaving specialists off the hook and leaves broken victims to pick up the pieces. Failed abortions, switched donors, and lost embryos may be First World problems—but these aren’t innocent lapses or harmless errors: They’re wrongs in need of rights.
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Schmidt, Dieter, and Simon Shorvon. Attitudes. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198725909.003.0002.
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It could be argued that the greatest advance in the field of epilepsy in the modern era has nothing to do with medicine, is not electroencephalography or magnetic resonance imaging or molecular biology, or the development of new drugs, but is in fact the change in societal attitudes towards those with epilepsy. Epilepsy is not only, or even most importantly, just a medical condition, but it is also something that happens to people, and it can destroy lives and livelihoods. There has been a welcome sea change in our opinions in recent years in the way people with epilepsy are treated and are regarded. All is not perfect by any means, and stigma is still present, but it surely is much less than it was in the early periods of the modern history of epilepsy, at least in Western cultures. This chapter charts the course of changing societal attitudes since 1860, through the dire years of theories of degeneration, eugenics, positivist criminology, and racial hygiene. There has been a transformation of epilepsy from the moral to the medical domain, from ‘badness’ to ‘sickness’, and this has certainly contributed to decreasing stigmatisation and deprecation. Much needs still to be done, and prejudice can flare up quickly; but nevertheless the public attitudes to epilepsy are far better now than in even the recent past.
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Bradford, John M. W., Giovana V. de Amorim Levin, Adekunle G. Ahmed, and Sanjiv Gulati. Sex offender treatment. Edited by Alec Buchanan and Lisa Wootton. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198738664.003.0011.
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There are many misconceptions about sexual-offender treatment, which are particularly magnified when it comes to understanding and managing the risk of sexual offending in the community. Many of the misconceptions are based on faulty information about the types of treatment, treatment outcomes, and sexual-offence recidivism. Additionally, public misconception of sexual-offending behaviour in sexually deviant individuals creates stigma and fear. This is despite the large number of studies on sexual-offender treatment, recidivism, and treatment outcome available in the scientific literature. In fact, various actuarial risk-assessment instruments can be used to estimate the probability that a sexual offender will recidivate. Risk can be managed through treatment. The aim of this chapter is to review the evidence-based studies on the efficacy of sexual-offender treatment, as well as how the risk management of sexual offenders is currently implemented in sexual-offender treatment programmes.
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Bell, Daniel, and Wang Pei. Just Hierarchy. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691200897.001.0001.
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All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. This book contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as the book shows, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away with social hierarchies. The book ask which forms of hierarchy are justified and how these can serve morally desirable goals. It looks at ways of promoting just forms of hierarchy while minimizing the influence of unjust ones, such as those based on race, sex, or caste. Which hierarchical relations are morally justified and why? The book argues that it depends on the nature of the social relation and context. Different hierarchical principles ought to govern different kinds of social relations: what justifies hierarchy among intimates is different from what justifies hierarchy among citizens, countries, humans and animals, and humans and intelligent machines. Morally justified hierarchies can and should govern different spheres of our social lives, though these will be very different from the unjust hierarchies that have governed us in the past. The book examines how hierarchical social relations can have a useful purpose, not only in personal domains but also in larger political realms.
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Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper. Making Sense of Affirmative Action. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190648787.001.0001.
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What makes affirmative action morally (un)justified? That is this book’s core question. Its main contribution consists in a meticulous scrutiny of the strength of the six main arguments for—i.e., the compensation, the anti-discrimination, the equality of opportunity, the role model, the diversity, and the integration-based justifications—and the five main objections to affirmative action—i.e., the reverse discrimination, the stigma, the mismatch, the publicity, and the merit-based objections—and of how these arguments relate to one another. The book argues that all of the five main objections to affirmative action are either flawed or quite limited in terms of their implications. With regard to the arguments in favor of affirmative action, the book shows why the anti-discrimination and equality of opportunity-based arguments provide strong justifications for many affirmative action schemes. In light thereof and the fact that the five most influential arguments against affirmative action are all flawed or otherwise weak, the overall claim defended in the book is that many of the schemes that people have in mind when they discuss affirmative action (many of which are presently on the retreat) are justified. However, the book also emphasizes that any definitive answer to the question Is affirmative action morally (un)justified? must rest on a wide range of empirical results in the social sciences etc., e.g., about the likely effects of various affirmative action schemes; and that the question, when posed in such general form (unlike when it is asked about specific schemes of affirmative action), admits of no direct positive or negative answer.
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Schmidt, Dieter, and Simon Shorvon. The End of Epilepsy? Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198725909.001.0001.
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Epilepsy is a common disease of the brain, occurring in roughly 1% of all people, and although repeated epileptic seizures are its clinical hallmark, epilepsy is not just a medical phenomenon, but a social construct, with cultural, political, and financial consequences. People with epilepsy are exposed to stigma and burdened with disadvantages which can be far reaching. There are indeed many remedies, but no cure. This book provides a biography of modern epilepsy in the form of a brief and selective narrative of some of the important developments in medical and social epilepsy research, with its many ups and downs, over the period since 1860. Its anatomy of modern epilepsy in eight chapters is, inevitably in this short book, selective, and intentionally provocative. The book’s main objective is to provide both a survey of the evolution of epilepsy and its treatment in the post-Jacksonian era, and also a critical look at where we are today and how we got there. This book tries to make an effort to separate the wheat from the chaff in the development of better epilepsy care. Good and bad events and concepts of historic consequence are discussed. It is acknowledged that, although the end of epilepsy is in reach of some, there is at present no prescribed scientific path to the end of epilepsy for others. Regardless of the severity of epilepsy, patients, with the support of their physicians and modern medicine, must create their own solutions to the multiple issues they face.
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Metelits, Michael D. The Arthur Crawford Scandal. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199498611.001.0001.
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The Arthur Crawford Scandal explores how nineteenth century Bombay tried a British official for corruption. The presidency government persuaded Indians, government officials, to testify against the very person who controlled their career by offering immunity from legal action and career punishment. A criminal conviction of Crawford’s henchman established the modus operandi of a bribery network. Subsequent efforts to intimidate Indian witnesses led to litigation at the high court level, resulting in a political pressure campaign in London based on biased press reports from India. These reports evoked questions in the House of Commons; questions became demands that Indians witnesses against Crawford be fired from government service. The secretary of state for India and the Bombay government negotiated about the fate of the Indian witnesses. At first, the secretary of state accepted the Bombay government’s proposals. But the press campaign against the Indian witnesses eventually led him to order the Government of India, in consultation with the Government of Bombay, to pass a law ordering those officials who paid Crawford willingly, to be fired. Those whom the Bombay government determined to be extorted were not to be fired. Both groups retained immunity from further actions at law. Thus, Bombay won a victory that almost saved its original guarantee of immunity: those who were fired were to receive their salary (along with periodic step increases) until they reached retirement age, at which time they would receive a pension. However, this ‘solution’ did little to overcome the stigma and suffering of the fired officials.
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Erickson, Christina L. Spanked. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197518236.001.0001.
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Abstract Tracing the history of spanking from our earliest records, the trail of spankings’ influence on society and individuals is explored. The book covers the slow transition from the whip and rod to the hand, the first questioning of spankings’ utility, and the inception of spanking stigma. Stories of religion, school paddling, and the development of child protection in the United States highlight historical factors on the edges of spanking and show their connections to our modern conundrum—why do we hit people smaller than us who we love so much? To understand the real meaning of spanking, the book explores the private lives of family and the public sphere of our social lives. Spanking has been a common and accepted discipline for hundreds of years. Filled with stories of families, researchers, and community organizers, the book helps us see varied angles of family spanking we have avoided for far too long. The research outcomes on spanking are causal and clear, and the data have been repeated in many studies. Brain research, parent child synchrony, touch, trauma, and communication all lead us to new understandings of spanking’s impact on adults and children alike. Maybe most important of all is the question never asked before: Is spanking a child good for the parent? Book group questions and prompts for organizations and professionals provide a framework for conversation and dialogue. A rich appendix includes laws on physical discipline from each state, laws on school paddling, and corporal punishment laws around the world.
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Din, Nicoleta, and Gabriela Iasmina Stan. Proiecte de activitate si scenarii didactice. Invatamant prescolar. Editura Universitara, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5682/9786062813789.
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Cartea de fata reprezinta o sursa de inspiratie atat pentru elevii liceelor pedagogice sau studentii de la specializarea Pedagogia invatamantului primar si prescolar care se pregatesc sa lucreze in invatamantul precsolar, cat si pentru cadrele didactice debutante (aflate la inceputul carierei didactice) sau pentru cadrele didactice care-si sustin inspectiile pentru obtinerea gradelor didactice sau, de ce nu, pentru cadrele didactice cu experienta vasta care au epuizat toate ideile si sunt in cautarea unor viziuni noi de desfasurare a activitatilor didactice intr-un mod atractiv si creativ. Stim cu totii ca generatiile actuale de copii au nevoie sa fie stimulate in permanenta si, de multe ori, cadrele didactice sunt puse in situatia de a veni mereu cu ceva nou. Cartea contine 11 proiecte de activitate si 18 scenarii didactice intocmite conform rigorilor pedagogice si metodologice si in concordanta cu Curriculumul pentru educatie timpurie.