The author, a professor who suffers from Crohn's disease, draws on participant observation, interviews, and public health campaigns, blogs, social media posts, and news articles to examine the role of stigma in chronic illness, focusing on ostomies and gastrointestinal conditions and the stories that reveal experiences with stigma, showing how stigma is a rhetorical process. She describes the rhetorical practices involved in stigmatization and resistance to it, including how stigma has been studied, and how stigma is enacted and encountered, including through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention messages, television, and visual practices like displays, and how ostomies and chronic gastrointestinal conditions are staged through lived experiences and shared stories. Annotation 2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
