Pathologizing poverty: New forms of diagnosis, disability, and structural stigma under welfare reform
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This work presents case studies drawn from ethnographic data involving daily participant-observation between 2005 and 2012 in public clinics and impoverished neighborhoods in New York City, to describe the subjective experience of structural stigma imposed by the increasing medicalization of public support for the poor through a diagnosis of permanent mental disability.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2014-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 185 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Disability benefits & Mental illness.read more
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The Stigma Complex.
TL;DR: A stigma complex is proposed, a system of interrelated, heterogeneous parts bringing together insights across disciplines to provide a more realistic and complicated sense of the challenge facing research and change efforts.
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Introduction to the special issue on structural stigma and health
TL;DR: Recent research has begun to generate a tantalizing set of findings concerning the role of structural stigma in the production of negative outcomes for members of stigmatized groups, including individuals with mental illness and individuals infected with HIV/ AIDS.
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“What matters most:” A cultural mechanism moderating structural vulnerability and moral experience of mental illness stigma
Lawrence H. Yang,Fang pei Chen,Kathleen Janel Sia,Jonathan Lam,Katherine Lam,Hong Ngo,Sing Lee,Arthur Kleinman,Byron J. Good +8 more
TL;DR: Experiences with mental illness stigma were contingent on the degree to which immigrants were able to participate in work to achieve "what mattered most" in their cultural context, i.e., accumulation of financial resources.
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Food insecurity, chronic illness, and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area: An example of structural violence in United States public policy.
Henry J. Whittle,Kartika Palar,Lee Lemus Hufstedler,Hilary K. Seligman,Edward A. Frongillo,Sheri D. Weiser +5 more
TL;DR: The experiences of food insecurity described by participants in this study can be understood as a form of structural violence, motivating the need for structural interventions at the policy level that extend beyond food-specific solutions.
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'They won't change it back in their heads that we're trash': the intersection of sex work-related stigma and evolving policing strategies.
Andrea Krüsi,Andrea Krüsi,Thomas Kerr,Thomas Kerr,Christina Taylor,Tim Rhodes,Kate Shannon,Kate Shannon +7 more
TL;DR: It is highlighted that intersecting regimes of stigmatisation and criminalisation continued to undermine sex workers citizenship rights to police protection and legal recourse and perpetuated labour conditions that render sex workers at increased risk for violence and poor health.
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