SEMINAR: Research on Stigma of Mental Illness
Professor Bernice A. Pescosolido
Time: Wednesday May 14, 2014 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Place: Stockholm University, Sveaplan room 033
Bernice A. Pescosolido is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. She has focused her research and teaching on social issues in health, illness, and healing. Pescosolido’s research agenda addresses how social networks connect individuals to their communities and to institutional structures, providing the "wires" through which people’s attitudes and actions are influenced. This agenda encompasses three basic areas: health care services, stigma, and suicide research.
Centre Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Department of Social Work, Department of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
