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Stigma stories : rhetoric, lived experience, and chronic illness / Molly Margaret Kessler.

Van Pelt Library HM1131 .K47 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kessler, Molly Margaret, author.
Contributor:
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Stigma (Social psychology).
Gastrointestinal system--Diseases.
Gastrointestinal system.
Chronically ill--Social aspects.
Chronically ill.
Chronic diseases--Social aspects.
Chronic diseases.
Sociology of disability.
Rhetoric--Social aspects.
Rhetoric.
Stereotyping.
Gastrointestinal Diseases.
Medical Subjects:
Stereotyping.
Gastrointestinal Diseases.
Physical Description:
xviii, 212 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
Summary:
"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.
"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.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Studying Stigma: A Rhetorical Approach to Stories and Lived Experience
Rhetoric of Stories, Stigma, Lived Experiences
Studying Stigma Stories
Preview of Chapters
ch. 2 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
ch. 3 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
ch. 4 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
ch. 5 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
ch. 6 Thinking with Stories: Toward Stigma Interventions
The Value of a Praxiographic Approach to Stories
Interventional Insights
Conducting Entangled Research.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
ISBN:
9780814214916
0814214916
9780814258330
0814258336
OCLC:
1285121634

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