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Shame and Self-harm: Association and Avoidance
In Imogen Tyler’s recent monograph, Stigma: The Machine of Inequality, she opens the introduction with a vignette describing her conversation with Stephanie, a woman who talked about her experience of...
View ArticleShame and Medicine PhD position – Art History & Visual Culture – Applications...
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in Art History and Visual Culture as part of the Wellcome-Trust funded Shame and Medicine Project. This fully funded studentship, beginning in July...
View ArticleTransforming the Stigma and Shame Associated with Age-related Illness
Transforming the Stigma and Shame Associated with Age-related Illness: Two Short films, Piano Lessons and Torching the Dusties by Marlene Goldman Online film screening and talk with Marlene Goldman....
View ArticleShame and the formation of the professional medical identity
“Is doctor something I wanted to do or something I wanted to be?” – Emily Silverman “Shame becomes inevitably bound up with the process of identity formation which underlies man’s striving for self,...
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Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 Seminar Series
The Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 Seminar Series, organized at the University of Exeter as part of the UKRI-AHRC funded ‘Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19’ project, addresses the key role...
View ArticleCall for Artists – Graphic Medicine Project
Call for comic creator collaborators for paid graphic medicine projects in 2021/2022 We are now searching for comic creators, who want to collaborate with doctors and medical humanities researchers...
View ArticleShame across Times and Spaces: Women’s Experiences of ‘Virginity Testing’ and...
‘Virginity testing’, which refers to the medical or non-medical practice that is expected to determine the existence of the ‘hymen’, has been covered by a wide variety of media outlets in the last...
View ArticleThe Nocturnists – Call for Voices –‘Shame in Medicine’ Storytelling Podcast...
The Shame and Medicine Project is excited to be collaborating with The Nocturnists, a medical storytelling podcast and community to create an audio documentary storytelling series about ‘Shame in...
View ArticleShame and Hormonal Contraceptive Mental Health Side Effects
The development of the first hormonal contraceptive in 1960 was considered one of the most important inventions of the 20th century, and worldwide it has continued to pave the way for sexual freedom...
View ArticleShame, Stigma and Social Threats in Experiences of Chronic Persistent Pain
Avoidance of clinical care is common for those who experience shame and stigma often to the detriment of care procurement. This avoidance can be an effort to protect from further shaming. For those...
View ArticleRespect and Shame in Healthcare and Bioethics Workshop Series
The “Respect and Shame in Healthcare and Bioethics” Workshop Series aims to address the following questions: How are the concepts of respect, disrespect, shame and humiliation relevant to healthcare...
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Shame-Sensitive Dental Care for Patients with Complex Lives: Part I
Shame and Dentistry: Considering the Impact of Vulnerable Individuals’ Experiences People with complex lives and complex needs related to homelessness or other severe disadvantage are no strangers to...
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Shame-Sensitive Dental Care for Patients with Complex Lives: Part II
Towards Shame-Sensitive Dental Practice Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise runs a Community Dental Clinic in Plymouth for vulnerable people, including those who are affected by homelessness and who...
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Moving Shame Workshop
‘Moving Shame’ is a two day workshop organised and co-facilitated by University of Exeter PhD candidate and Shame and Medicine Project Collaborator Gemma Lucas, yoga teacher/counsellor Catherine...
View ArticleShame, Health and Lived Experience Workshop
Shame, Health and Lived Experience A 2-day workshop organised by the Centre for Subjectivity Research and the Shame and Medicine Project, an interdisciplinary research project investigating the role...
View ArticleCall for Doctors
The Shame and Medicine Project is looking for doctors who have been disciplined by the GMC and feel shame or other self-conscious emotions as a result of it. By shame we mean the emotional experience...
View ArticleHow I Came to Study Shame and Humiliation in Finnish Healthcare
The medical field is not where my own career path exists. I came to know the field from another point of view – from being the daughter of an ALS patient and a member of a family who has had many...
View ArticleCALL FOR PAPERS – PHILOSOPHY THEMATIC ISSUE (2022): JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN...
CALL FOR PAPERS – PHILOSOPHY THEMATIC ISSUE (2022): JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE Overcoming Stigma in the clinic: identifying, understanding and addressing discrimination, degradation...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: The art of medicine – COVID-19, online shaming, and health-care...
Stigma and shame have been features of past pandemics. The stigma associated with disease can be experienced as shame by those who spread it. In almost all human cultures, there is shame attached to...
View ArticleUnderstanding Experiences of Weight-Related Shame in Clinical Experience
Research shows that many people living with obesity experience weight-related shame in clinical practice. Unsolicited weight-loss advice from GPs, medical equipment that fails to accommodate larger...
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