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Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting : Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health / Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brewis, Alexandra, author.
- Wutich, Amber, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World health.
- Medical anthropology.
- Health attitudes.
- Sanitation.
- Weight loss.
- Mental illness.
- Obesity.
- Stigma (Social psychology).
- World health--ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Drawing on the authors' keen observations and decades of fieldwork, Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting combines a wide array of ethnographic evidence from around the globe to demonstrate conclusively how stigma undermines global health's basic goals to create both health and justice.
- Contents:
- Dealing with defecation
- Dirty things, disgusting people
- Dirty and disempowered
- Fat, bad, and everywhere
- The tyranny of weight judgment
- World war o
- Once crazy, always crazy
- The myth of the destigmatized society
- Completely depressing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-3336-2
- OCLC:
- 1122563813
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