Stigma Syndemics
New Directions in Biosocial Health
by Bayla Ostrach, Shir Lerman Ginzburg, Merrill Singer
1st Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781498552141 |
| eText ISBN | 9781498552158 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publishing Year | 2017 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 242 |
Stigma Syndemics: New Directions in Biosocial Health, 1st Edition, is an anthology uniting syndemics theory and stigma research. The volume examines how social exclusion and structural vulnerabilities interact with biological mechanisms to produce acute and chronic suffering across populations.
Contributors analyze how stigmatizing societal frameworks shape health outcomes across reproductive health, incarceration, and immigration detention. The text explores how social pathologization restricts healthcare access, heightens distress, and affects populations navigating poverty and institutional confinement.
Through focused case studies, the collection shows how processes of othering turn common or treatable medical conditions into compounding cycles of blame, disease, and structural disadvantage.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Abortion Complication Syndemics: Structural Stigma, Pathologized Pregnancies, and Health Consequences of Constrained Care
Chapter 2: The Syndemic of Endometriosis, Stress and Stigma
Chapter 3: Pathologized Bodies, Embodied Stress, and Deleterious Birth Outcomes: Iatrogenic Effects of Teen Pregnancy Stigma
Chapter 4: The Multiple Stigmas of the PDI Syndemic: Poverty, “Racial"/Ethnic Discrimination, Incarceration, and Reproductive and Familial Risk
Chapter 5: Sickness in the Detention System: Syndemics of Mental Distress, Malnutrition, and Immigration Stigma in the United States
Chapter 6: Stigma Syndemic among People with Intellectual Disability who have been Incarcerated
Chapter 7: Stigma as a Driving Force in the Basic Causes of Malnutrition-Related Syndemics in Guatemala
Chapter 8: 'Toothless Maw-maw can't eat no more': Stigma and synergies of dental disease, diabetes, and psychosocial stress among low-income rural Appalachians
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