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Stigma and social exclusion in healthcare

Author: Tom Mason; et al
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
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Revealing the hidden strategies used by health sector professionals to prevent access by those considered unsuitable, this study exposes prejudices aimed at HIV sufferers, pregnant teenagers, people with disabilities and the elderly inter alios.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tom Mason; et al
ISBN: 0415221994 9780415221993 0415222001 9780415222006
OCLC Number: 45951577
Description: xiv, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction. Theorectical underpinnings. Historical developments --
The changing dynamic of stigma --
Relationship to practice. Applications to practice. Difference: The stigma of congenital abnormalities --
Aspects of stigma associated with genetic conditions --
Hearing loss: scope for concealment --
Marked on sight --
Communication impairment and stigma --
The stigma of 'sexuality': concealability and course --
HIV and AIDS --
The stigma of epilepsy: implications for clinical management --
Burns and social stigma ; Deviance: Exclusive language? --
Race, stigma, and sterotyping: the construction of difference in forensic care --
The mentally disordered offender: looking-glass monsters - reflections of the paedophile in popular culture --
Not in my back yard: stigma from a personal perspective --
Smackheads, crackheads and other junkies: dimensions of the stigma of drug use ; Dilemmas: Rosa's story: the burden of ill health when homeless --
Involuntary childlessness and stigma --
Teenage pregnancy, stigma and differential provision of healthcare --
The stigmatisation of breastfeeding --
The stigma of terminal cancer --
Stroke sufferer --
The older person --
From stigma to the social exclusion of disabled people. Where do we go from here? Manifesto for change.
Responsibility: edited by Tom Mason ... [et al.].
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