{"product_id":"lazy-crazy-and-disgusting-9781421433356","title":"Lazy Crazy and Disgusting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow stigma derails well-intentioned public health efforts, creating suffering and worsening inequalities.   2020 Winner, Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize,Shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book PrizeStigma is a dehumanizing process, where shaming and blaming are embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within society. In Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting, medical anthropologists Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich explore a darker side of public health: that well-intentioned public health campaigns can create new and damaging stigma, even when they are otherwise successful. Brewis and Wutich present a novel, synthetic argument about how stigmas act as a massive driver of global disease and suffering, killing or sickening billions every year. They focus on three of the most complex, difficult-to-fix global health efforts: bringing sanitation to all, treating mental illness,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis engaging book . . . fills a significant gap in the literature by providing a wake-up call to scholars and practitioners unfamiliar with the topic. And it reminds me that we should all be working together to avoid any unintended consequences of promoting health.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLazy, Crazy, and Disgusting\u003c\/i\u003e is an impeccably researched, collaborative, thought-provoking, and boundary-breaking book that should be required reading for anyone interested in public health, medicine, and anthropology.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMedical Anthropology Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrewis and Wutich provide a very useful primer on stigma, which gives a succinct explanation of what stigma is in relation to global health, its different forms, and how stigmatization intersects with other population-level and individual-level effects. As an important topic for students of medicine, global health, and ethics, \u003ci\u003eLazy, Crazy, and Disgusting\u003c\/i\u003e would be a useful recommended text.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Lancet: Diabetes and Endocrinology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrewis and Wutich's book offers a rigorous analysis of how public global health efforts can create and reinforce stigma . . . This book is recommended for anyone with a general interest in global public health, [and for] undergraduate and postgraduate students from health-related disciplines including medical sociology. This book should be considered by health practitioners, scholars and public health professionals when designing and implementing health-related interventions.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSociology of Health and Illness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe global perspective and illuminating detail in \u003ci\u003eLazy, Crazy, and Disgusting \u003c\/i\u003ebring the social, cultural and structural elements of stigma into focus for the reader . . . This text is both academic and accessible, making it an engrossing read for those interested in medicine and public health, anthropology and sociology. I would argue it is also incredibly relevant to those who experience, resist or perpetuate stigma: each and every one of us.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eOrganization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book provides an accessible, synthetic, and critical examination of the health effects of shame and stigma, one that was already long overdue when the book was published in 2019. That was before the onset of the current pandemic. The topic is of even more pressing concern now, when the public's health depends so much on the behavior of individuals.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe best thing about this book is that it is relatable on personal, institutional, and global levels. The book provides a timely contribution to the state of global health, especially the process of stigmatizing people with infectious disease.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTeaching Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a social justice–informed and critically important book for students, scholars, professionals, and policy makers in public health, medical anthropology, health-related social work, and health justice.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAffilia: Journal of Women and Social Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003ePart I. Disgusting\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Dealing with Defecation \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Dirty Things, Disgusting People\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Dirty and Disempowered\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Lazy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Fat, Bad, and Everywhere\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Tyranny of Weight Judgment\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. World War O\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Crazy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Once Crazy, Always Crazy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Myth of the Destigmatized Society\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Completely Depressing\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. What We Can Do\u003cbr\u003eAppendix. Stigma: A Brief Primer\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408133202263,"sku":"9781421433356","price":27.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421433356.jpg?v=1730501705","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lazy-crazy-and-disgusting-9781421433356","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}