The End of Stigma?: Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness

by Gill Green

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. But if the hallmark of the post-modern world is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415376254
• ISBN13: 9780415376259
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"