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Product Description: To be fat hasn’t always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture explores this arc, from veneration to shame, examining the historic roots of our contemporary anxiety about fatness...read more
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9780814727683 | New York Univ Pr, May 2, 2011, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: To be fat hasn’t always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait.

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9780814727690 | New York Univ Pr, May 2, 2011, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: To be fat hasn’t always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait.

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Product Description: Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness offers practical strategies for addressing the harmful effects of stigma attached to mental illness. It considers both major forms of stigma: public stigma, which is prejudice and discrimination endorsed by the general population; and self-stigma, the loss of self-esteem and efficacy that occurs when an individual internalizes prejudice and discrimination...read more
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9780470683606 | Blackwell Pub, March 22, 2011, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness offers practical strategies for addressing the harmful effects of stigma attached to mental illness.

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Product Description: Millions of people and their families are affected by mental illness; it causes untold pain and severely impairs their ability to function in the world. In recent years, we have begun to understand and develop a range of effective treatments for mental illness...read more
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9780195308440 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 28, 2006, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Millions of people and their families are affected by mental illness; it causes untold pain and severely impairs their ability to function in the world.

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9780199730926 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 27, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Millions of people and their families are affected by mental illness; it causes untold pain and severely impairs their ability to function in the world.

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Product Description: This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions. Behaviour, lifestyle and identity are no longer the results of mass-production by social class and nation, but increasingly the quirky and unique eccentricities of the individual as consumer, reflexive citizen and free agent...read more
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9780415376242 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 13, 2009), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions.

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9780415376259 | Routledge, April 6, 2009, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions.

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9780203881798 | Routledge, February 9, 2009, cover price $43.95

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Product Description: Society is faced with a variety of undesirable behaviours and conditions such as crime, mental and physical illnesses and disabilities, that usually provoke different responses in people such as emotions of anger, fear or pity. In our evolutionary past, these emotions adaptively motivated the repair of interpersonal relationships, whereas more recently they may also result in other types of social control such as stigmatization or tolerance...read more
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9780521790192 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $127.00 | About this edition: Society is faced with a variety of undesirable behaviours and conditions such as crime, mental and physical illnesses and disabilities, that usually provoke different responses in people such as emotions of anger, fear or pity.

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Product Description: Society is faced with a variety of undesirable behaviours and conditions such as crime, mental and physical illnesses and disabilities, that usually provoke different responses in people such as emotions of anger, fear or pity. In our evolutionary past, these emotions adaptively motivated the repair of interpersonal relationships, whereas more recently they may also result in other types of social control such as stigmatization or tolerance...read more
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9780521793681, titled "Stigmatization, Tolerance and Repair: An Integrative Psychological Analysis of Responses to Deviance" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: Society is faced with a variety of undesirable behaviours and conditions such as crime, mental and physical illnesses and disabilities, that usually provoke different responses in people such as emotions of anger, fear or pity.

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Product Description: Why is shame so central to our identity and to our culture? What is its role in stigmatizing subcultures such as the Irish, the queer or the underclass? Can shame be understood as a productive force?In this lucid and passionately argued book, Sally R...read more
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9780754649212 | Ashgate Pub Co, December 7, 2007, cover price $114.95 | About this edition: Why is shame so central to our identity and to our culture?

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9780754649236 | Ashgate Pub Co, December 7, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Why is shame so central to our identity and to our culture?

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Product Description: Dirty Work profiles a number of occupations that society deems tainted. The volume vivid, ethnographic reports focuses on the communication that helps workers manage the moral, social, and physical stains that derive from engaging in such occupations...read more
By Shirley K. Drew (editor), Bob M. Gassaway (editor) and Melanie Mills (editor)
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9781932792737 | Baylor Univ Pr, July 15, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Dirty Work profiles a number of occupations that society deems tainted.

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Product Description: People with mental illness commonly describe the stigma and discrimination they face as being worse than their main condition. Discrimination can pervade every part of their daily life - their personal life, working life, sense of citizenship, their ability to maintain even a basic standard of living...read more
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9780198570974 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 24, 2006), cover price $125.00 | About this edition: People with mental illness commonly describe the stigma and discrimination they face as being worse than their main condition.

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Product Description: This book is a guide to understanding the important issue of stigma - 'associated disadvantage' - which affects not only those who are excluded from society, but also family members and friends. "Social Work and Disadvantage" explains the impact of stigmatization on siblings, families and workers in the caring professions and its consequences for the people it affects and for society as a whole...read more
By Peter Burke (editor) and Jonathan Parker (editor)
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9781843103646 | Jessica Kingsley Pub, October 30, 2006, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This book is a guide to understanding the important issue of stigma - 'associated disadvantage' - which affects not only those who are excluded from society, but also family members and friends.

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Product Description: People with mental illness commonly describe the stigma and discrimination they face as being worse than their main condition. Discrimination can pervade every part of their daily life - their personal life, working life, sense of citizenship, their ability to maintain even a basic standard of living...read more
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9780198570981 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 24, 2006, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: People with mental illness commonly describe the stigma and discrimination they face as being worse than their main condition.

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9781886433953 | A & B Book Dist Inc, July 30, 2006, cover price $20.01

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Product Description: The stigma attached to mental illness is the main obstacle to better mental health care and a better quality of life for patients, their families and the community as a whole. In 1996, the WPA began an international programme to fight the stigma and discrimination because of schizophrenia...read more
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9780521549431 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The stigma attached to mental illness is the main obstacle to better mental health care and a better quality of life for patients, their families and the community as a whole.

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Product Description: The devaluation of those perceived as "different" has profound repercussions both for individuals and for society. This book brings together leading researchers to present groundbreaking findings on such topics as the dimensions of stigma, why people stigmatize others, how targeted individuals are affected by and respond to stigmatization, and influences on social interactions...read more
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9781572305731 | Guilford Pubn, August 1, 2000, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The devaluation of those perceived as 'different has profound repercussions both for individuals and for society.

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9781572309425 | Guilford Pubn, July 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The devaluation of those perceived as "different" has profound repercussions both for individuals and for society.

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Product Description: Sociologist Gerhard Falk examines the social psychology that motivates this process of exclusion, focusing on the outcasts in contemporary American society and comparing current experience with examples from the past. Referring to the work of Emile Durkheim and Erving Goffman, Falk reviews the whole range of stigmatised people from the mentally ill to ordinary people with unpopular occupations, like undertakers and trash collectors...read more
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9781573928809 | Prometheus Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $29.98 | About this edition: Sociologist Gerhard Falk examines the social psychology that motivates this process of exclusion, focusing on the outcasts in contemporary American society and comparing current experience with examples from the past.

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Product Description: A diverse group of contributors, from the fields of education, psychology, philosophy and cultural studies, explore the social phenomenon of labeling. The authors question the nature of labeling, its contexts and processes, looking in particular at its prescriptive and confining effects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Glenn M. Hudak (editor) and Paul Kihn (editor)
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9780415230865 | Falmer Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: A diverse group of contributors, from the fields of education, psychology, philosophy and cultural studies, explore the social phenomenon of labeling.

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9780415230872 | Falmer Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: A diverse group of contributors, from the fields of education, psychology, philosophy and cultural studies, explore the social phenomenon of labeling.

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Product Description: This is the first book to present a comprehensive civil rights and responsibilities agenda aimed at achieving full social inclusion for people suffering from mental illness. Drawing on research in the US and UK, as well as extensive experience of lobbying, policy work and collaboration between mental health and disability movements, Liz Sayce critiques the most popular approaches to reducing stigma and identifies the theoretical approaches and practical tasks necessary to effect real and positive change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780312227333 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2000, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This is the first book to present a comprehensive civil rights and responsibilities agenda aimed at achieving full social inclusion for people suffering from mental illness.

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Product Description: Individuals with mental illnesses--such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression--have a double burden, Otto Wahl writes. Not only must they cope with disabling disorders, but they also must contend with the negative attitudes of the public toward those disorders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780813527246 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Individuals with mental illnesses--such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression--have a double burden, Otto Wahl writes.

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Product Description: Individuals with mental illnesses--such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression--have a double burden, Otto Wahl writes. Not only must they cope with disabling disorders, but they also must contend with the negative attitudes of the public toward those disorders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780813527239 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Individuals with mental illnesses--such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression--have a double burden, Otto Wahl writes.

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9780791426852 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $53.50

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9780791426869 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Presenting a general theory of social motivation, this comprehensive volume integrates a range of well-researched areas in social psychology and motivation, including achievement evaluation, reactions to the stigmatized, help giving, aggression, and impression management...read more
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9780898628432 | Guilford Pubn, April 14, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Presenting a general theory of social motivation, this comprehensive volume integrates a range of well-researched areas in social psychology and motivation, including achievement evaluation, reactions to the stigmatized, help giving, aggression, and impression management.

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Product Description: Examination of shame as a driving force in men, from the personal, societal, and cultural stand points. Contributors include Robert Bly, founder of the men's movement, and Asa Baber, author of the Men column in Playboy. 30 contributors, 29 U.S.
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9780826188007 | Springer Pub Co, February 1, 1995, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Examination of shame as a driving force in men, from the personal, societal, and cultural stand points.

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Product Description: Unlike texts that view deviance as an “essence,” independent of the mind of the observer, Pfuhl and Henry perceive deviance, and its opposite, “normality,” as impermanent, human creations, resulting from people interacting with one another—the outcome of the antagonisms, contradictions and conflicts in society...read more
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9780202304694 | 3 sub edition (Aldine De Gruyter, May 1, 1993), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Unlike texts that view deviance as an “essence,” independent of the mind of the observer, Pfuhl and Henry perceive deviance, and its opposite, “normality,” as impermanent, human creations, resulting from people interacting with one another—the outcome of the antagonisms, contradictions and conflicts in society.

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9780202304700 | 3 edition (Aldine De Gruyter, August 1, 1993), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Unlike texts that view deviance as an “essence,” independent of the mind of the observer, Pfuhl and Henry perceive deviance, and its opposite, “normality,” as impermanent, human creations, resulting from people interacting with one another—the outcome of the antagonisms, contradictions and conflicts in society.
9780534058920 | 2 sub edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, April 1, 1986), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Unlike texts that view deviance as an “essence,” independent of the mind of the observer, Pfuhl and Henry perceive deviance, and its opposite, “normality,” as impermanent, human creations, resulting from people interacting with one another—the outcome of the antagonisms, contradictions and conflicts in society.

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Product Description: Examines the stigmatism of children who deviate from acceptable American standards for physical appearance. Beuf analyzes both the effects of this stigmatization on children and the strategies used to cope with it.
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9780812282344 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Examines the stigmatism of children who deviate from acceptable American standards for physical appearance.

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9780812213102 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Examines the stigmatism of children who deviate from acceptable American standards for physical appearance.

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Examines what causes feelings of stigma, how one feels grief and shame, and ways to achieve self-acceptance and esteem.
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9780823909988 | Rosen Pub Group, March 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Examines what causes feelings of stigma, how one feels grief and shame, and ways to achieve self-acceptance and esteem.

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