The Polyphony
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
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Thanks @the-polyphony.bsky.social for sharing your platform with us to give people a sense of what's in the new edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' Available as a free e-book or relatively inexpensive paperback 5/5
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Recalibrating Stigma
Recalibrating Stigma - Sociologies of Health and Illness; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Featuring original analyses from emerging leaders in medical sociology, this book r...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thanks @the-polyphony.bsky.social for sharing your platform with us to give people a sense of what's in the new edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' Available as a free e-book or relatively inexpensive paperback 5/5
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
Reposted by The Polyphony
Lastly Caroline Law and @harrietcooper.bsky.social pull together their respective analyses of male infertility and parenting disabled children to consider how stigma is involved in shaping and maintaining reproductive norms and idealised notions of family. 4/5
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Reproductive norms: stigma and disruptions in family-building
In the final of our ‘Recalibrating Stigma’ mini-takeover, Caroline Law and Harriet Cooper explores how stigma operates in relation to reproductive norms.
thepolyphony.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Lastly Caroline Law and @harrietcooper.bsky.social pull together their respective analyses of male infertility and parenting disabled children to consider how stigma is involved in shaping and maintaining reproductive norms and idealised notions of family. 4/5
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/05/r...
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/05/r...
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Then @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social & Fay Dennis combine analyses from their respective chapters in the book to explore what the examples of Long COVID and drug addition can tell us about how stigma emerges, affects people, gets disrupted, and mutates. 3/5
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/04/s...
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Stigma’s changing face
In the second of our ‘Recalibrating Stigma’ mini-takeover, Fay Dennis and Hannah Farrimond explore the contextually specific and contingent nature of stigma.
thepolyphony.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Then @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social & Fay Dennis combine analyses from their respective chapters in the book to explore what the examples of Long COVID and drug addition can tell us about how stigma emerges, affects people, gets disrupted, and mutates. 3/5
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/04/s...
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/04/s...
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The 1st post of the takeover is from me, Gareth, Amy, & Tanisha. It summarises the key arguments and concepts we put forward in the chapter we wrote for the book. In it we explain why both stigma and anti-stigma need to be better conceptualised and applied. 2/5
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/03/a...
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/03/a...
What’s wrong with anti-stigma?
In the first of our ‘Recalibrating Stigma’ mini-takeover, Oli Williams, Gareth M. Thomas, Amy Chandler, and Tanisha Spratt introduce the concept of anti-stigma.
thepolyphony.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The 1st post of the takeover is from me, Gareth, Amy, & Tanisha. It summarises the key arguments and concepts we put forward in the chapter we wrote for the book. In it we explain why both stigma and anti-stigma need to be better conceptualised and applied. 2/5
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/03/a...
thepolyphony.org/2025/12/03/a...