Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting av Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich

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<p><b>How stigma derails well-intentioned public health efforts, creating suffering and worsening inequalities.</b></p><p>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 Prize</p><p>Stigma is a dehumanizing process, where shaming and blaming are embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within society. In<i> Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting</i>, 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. </p><p>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 sanitat