Stigma Stories : Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness /

"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-specif...

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Main Author: Kessler, Molly Margaret (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Studying stigma: a rhetorical approach to stories and lived experience ; Rhetoric of stories, stigma, lived experiences ; Studying stigma stories ; Preview of chapters
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 ; Conclusion
  • 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 ; Conclusion
  • Thinking with stories: toward stigma interventions ; The value of a praxiographic approach to stories ; Interventional insights ; Conducting entangled research.