Stigma Stories Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness / Molly Margaret Kessler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kessler, Molly Margaret, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stigma (Social psychology).

Sociology of disability.

Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Rhetoric.

Gastrointestinal system--Diseases.

Gastrointestinal system.

Chronic diseases--Social aspects.

Chronic diseases.

Gastrointestinal Diseases.

Stereotyping (Printing).

Chronically ill--Social aspects.

Chronically ill.

Medical Subjects:

Gastrointestinal Diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

The Ohio State University Press 2022

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness, Molly Margaret Kessler focuses on ostomies and gastrointestinal conditions to show how stigma is nearly as central to living with chronic conditions as the conditions themselves. Drawing on a multi-year study that includes participant observations, interviews, and rhetorical engagement with public health campaigns, blogs, social media posts, and news articles, Stigma Stories advocates for a rhetorical praxiographic approach that is attuned to the rhetorical processes, experiences, and practices in which stigma is enacted or countered. Engaging interdisciplinary conversations from the rhetoric of health and medicine, disability studies, narrative medicine, and sociology, Kessler takes an innovative look at how stigma functions on individual, interpersonal, and societal levels. In doing so, Kessler reveals how stories and lived experiences have much to teach us not only about how stigma functions but also about how it can be dismantled"-- Provided by publisher.

"Building on previous research into stigma within rhetoric and blending it with health communication, disability studies, narrative medicine, and sociology, this book takes a rhetorical approach to studying stigma as emergent within the lived experiences of stigmatized chronic conditions-specifically chronic gastrointestinal conditions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Studying stigma: a rhetorical approach to stories and lived experience ; Rhetoric of stories, stigma, lived experiences ; Studying stigma stories ; Preview of chapters

Listening for stigma: praxiographic solutions and stigma in practice ; Critiques of stigma research ; Praxiographic solutions ; Stigma in practice ; An ethical case for engaging stigma praxiographically

Staging stigma: ostomies as worst-case scenarios ; Leaks, stigma, and visceral publics ; Worst-case scenarios: ostomies in public health campaigns ; Ostomies on TV: fear and disgust in popular media ; Staging stigma through fear ; Credibility enhanced through stigma ; Conclusion

Protesting stigma: disruptive stories, temporality, and ostomies as lifesavers ; Temporality, disability, and progressions of experience ; Rejecting compulsory nostalgia: disruptive ostomy stories as protest ; Disruptive stories, disruptive timelines ; Complicating a two-sided story ; Conclusion

Managing stigma: visual acts of resistance ; Normalcy, norms, and the impossibility of normalization ; Displaying ostomies and soliciting stares ; Visual rewards and risks: sexualizing disability ; Showing off ostomies and arriving at the destination of normal ; Conclusion

Thinking with stories: toward stigma interventions ; The value of a praxiographic approach to stories ; Interventional insights ; Conducting entangled research.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814282106

0814282105

9780814282632

0814282636

OCLC:

1314853214