Disease & Stigma

Disease & Stigma

General

Books & Podcasts

Books

Stigma of Disease & Disability: Understanding & Overcoming Injustice – Patrick Corrigan

Podcasts

• Stigmatized
• Stigma Podcast

Collections

Collections

• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Bullying
• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Cyberbullying

AIDS & Other STIs/STDs

Books & Podcasts

Books

And the Band Played On – Randy Shilts

Stigma, Discrimination & Living with HIV/AIDS – Pranee Liamputtong

Wise Before Their Time: People With AIDS & HIV Talk About Their Lives – Ann Richardson et al.

Lethal Decisions: The Unnecessary Deaths of Millions of Women & Children from HIV/AIDS

Podcasts

• Inside HIV – The Podcast for Positive People
• HIV Hour 

Articles & Collections

Articles

• Rooting Out AIDS-Related Stigma & Discrimination
• How American Discrimination Has Hindered the Way We’ve Handled Disease Outbreaks 
• Haitian Community Denounces Stigma, Inaccuracies in Netflix AIDS video

Collections

• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – HIV/AIDS
• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Sexually Transmitted Diseases & Infections

Drug & Alcohol Disorders

Books & Podcasts

Books

Dopesick – Beth Macy

Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit & the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic – Barry Meier

Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic & Addiction – Elizabeth Vargas

Go Ask Alice – Beatrice Sparks

Podcasts

• Drug Stories Project
• Recovery Live
• The Addicted Mind

Articles & Collections

Articles

• Prescription Opioids Destroyed Families. Now Victims Worry Addiction Stigma May Keep them from Getting Justice
• Ending Stigma, Saving Lives: Yale Doctors Take on Opioid Addiction
• Astronauts & Addiction: Ending the Stigma
• Alcoholics Anonymous, Struggling to Reach New Members During the Shutdown, Expects a Surge
• The Burden of Caregiver Stigma on Treating Addiction

Collections

• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Addiction & Chemical Dependency
• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Alcoholism
• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Drug Abuse
• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Opioid Crisis

Eating Disorders

Books & Podcasts

Books

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss & Gain – Portia De Rossi

Please Eat: A Mother’s Struggle to Free her Teenage Son from Anorexia – Bev Mattocks 

The Body Tourist: A Memoir – Dana Lise Shavin

It Was Me All Along – Andie Mitchell

Massive – Julia Bell

She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb

A Hunger So Wide & So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems

Podcasts

• Let Us Eat Cake
• Progress not Perfection
• Psychology of Eating
• Compulsive Overeating Diary
• The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
• The Happy Eater
• Heavy Brain: How Your Mind Affects your Waistline
• Life with ED
• Freedom from Emotional Eating

Articles & Collections

Articles

• You Don’t Have to Explain a Fat Body:” Roxane Gay on Stigma
• Eating Disorders: Diet or Disease?
• Eating Disorders: How an Epidemic is Expanding & Striking Younger
• COVID-19 is Especially Hard for Those Battling Eating Disorders
• Majority of People do Suffer in Silence: Stigma Around Eating Disorders Remains
• Eating Disorders Linked to Suicide Risk

Collections

• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Eating Disorders

Body Image & Weight

Books & Podcasts

Books

Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty & Body Image – Ophira Edut

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

The Gifts of Imperfect – Brene Brown

Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America – Lynne Luciano

The Body Image Workbook: An 8 Step Program

Book Lists

• CUP Tackles Body Image with New Children’s Non-Fiction Titles
• 8 Books to Help Raise Boys to be Body Positive 

Podcasts

• She’s All Fat
• The Reclaiming You Podcast
• BBC World Service: The Benefits of Nakedness 
• Fearless Rebelle Radio: Diet Culture’s Impact on Womxn 
• Appearance Matters: Male Body Image
• Yes & Body Politics

Articles & Collections

Articles

• Instagram and the Male Body Image
• My Journey with Body Image in Athletics 
• “Oh You Must be Heavy Bones” – Marilyn Okoro’s Fight for Body Acceptance 
• What is Beauty Now? 

Collections

• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Body Image
• Gale Opposing Viewpoints – Obesity

Invisible Illnesses

Books & Podcasts

Books

You Don’t Look Sick! Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness – Joy Selak

Surviving & Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness – Ilana Jacqueline

In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America – Laurie Edwards

Young, Sick & Invisible: A Skeptic’s Journey with Chronic Illness – Ania Bula

Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine – Michele Lent Hirsch

Sick: A Memoir – Porochista Khakpour

Not Tonight: Migraine & the Politics of Gender & Health – Joanne Leslie Kempner

Podcasts

• Made Visible
• Sick Boy
• Invisible Not Broken
• Chronically Healing
• Down to My Last Spoon
• Beyond Your Diagnosis
• Emotionally Autoimmunity Podcast

Articles

Articles

• The Stigma of Chronic Migraine
• Living with Fibromyalgia: The Condition that Makes You Feel Like a Fraud
• What I Hope COVID-19 Will Teach Us About Smiling Through Pain
• How to End the Stigma of Pain
• Pain Doesn’t Cause Stigma. We Do That to Each Other
• Chronic Pain Patients Plead for Prescribing Reform
• You Shouldn’t Accept Period Pain & Discomfort as Normal, Explains Expert
• The Shame & Stigma Mean Women with Endometriosis Suffer in Silence over Painful Sex
• Fertile Ground: The Silent Struggle of Infertility

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