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International Institute for Society and Health 2006/07 PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES You are invited to attend Tuesday 10th July 5.00 pm Professor Graham Scambler Professor of Medical Sociology, Department of Medicine, UCL `Sex Work Stigma as a Health Barrier´ The stigma attached to sex work is ubiquitous, although always a mix of the global and the local, and always embedded in political and social structures (themselves a mix of the global and the local). The capacity of sex work stigma to enhance the vulnerability of female sex workers (FSW) and their clients to disease, to impede their `rights´ and to undermine health interventions is well documented. In this paper a lapsed sociological distinction between stigma and deviance is re-presented, and a novel conceptual apparatus comprising notions of felt, enacted and project stigma and deviance presented. The explanatory potential of this conceptual frame is illustrated empirically and a typology of sex work careers developed. Reference is made in this paper to the author´s own study of migrant FSW from Eastern Europe working in central London, and to the published research of colleagues on FSW in both developed and developing societies. Graham Scambler is Professor of Medical Sociology in UCL's Department of Medicine. He has researched and contributed to a number of topics, including health inequalities, and has written most recently on stigmatising aspects of chronic illness and the health ramifications of the increasingly global sex industry. Recent books include 'Health and Social Change' (Open University Press, 2002) and a four-volume collection on 'Medical Sociology' (Routledge, 2006). He is currently editing the sixth edition of the textbook 'Sociology as Applied to Medicine'. He is founding co-editor of the international journal 'Social Theory and Health'. This seminar will be chaired by Professor Sir Michael Marmot This seminar will be held at UCL. RSVP seminar attendance by 06/07/07 (indicating any special needs and for directions to the seminar room) Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 020 7679 8249. Drinks & snacks at 6pm after the seminar. You may access an audio recording of past seminars at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/iish/seminars.htm Jane Johnson Administrative Assistant Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL 1-19 Torrington Place London, WC1E 6BT T: +44(0)20 7679 8249 www.ucl.ac.uk/capabilityandresilience www.ucl.ac.uk/iish www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology