NEW ARTICLE: Beyond a trauma-informed approach and towards shame-sensitive...
“Shame has ruled my whole life” – Anonymous, trauma survivor “Trauma leads to shame. Trauma determines the content of shame. Shame pushes the body into a traumatic response. The more I learn about the...
View ArticleShame and Depression: A Hyperawareness of The Social World
In 2001 Andrew Solomon published his book ‘The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression’, in which he gives an account of what it means to experience depression. He describes how depression is “a loss of...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: Shame Anxiety, stigma and clinical encounters
Luna Dolezal’s latest article “Shame anxiety, stigma and clinical encounters” has been published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Read the abstract below and access the full article...
View ArticleChina and the COVID-19 blame game
COVID-19 is not going away. Indeed, in China, in recent weeks, the pandemic has leapt from nowhere to dominate social media, even appearing once more on official news channels. While waves of the...
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What we are reading
The Shame and Medicine Project team meet every 6 weeks as a reading group. Here are some of articles, chapters and books we’ve been reading. Book Chapters: Gibson, M. (2019) ‘Conclusion’ in Pride and...
View ArticleThe Call Centre
“The Call Centre” is a participatory film that animates longer-term ethnographic research conducted over the past 24 months across the United Kingdom by London School of Economics’ Covid and Care...
View ArticleGraphic Medicine Exhibition
The Shame and Medicine Project collaborated with artists and academics to bring the phenomenology of shame to life and create resources for use in medical education. The Shame and Medicine Project and...
View ArticleHow we think about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ emotions in medicine
In her article Biomedicine Inside Out , sociologist Sky Gross argues that the emotional attitude of surgeons in the operating theatre is shaped by the architectures and rituals of surgical practices,...
View ArticleNEW PODCAST SERIES: Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest
“Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest” is a 10-part audio documentary series produced by The Nocturnists in collaboration with the Shame and Medicine project at the University of Exeter. Drawing on the...
View ArticleNEW ART EXHIBITION: NEEDLESTICK and SHAME SPIRAL
The Shame and Medicine Project have collaborated with artists and academics to bring the phenomenology of shame to life and create resources that can be used in medical education. The Shame and...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: Fat shaming under neoliberalism and COVID-19: Examining the UK’s...
Luna Dolezal and Tanisha Spratt’s article ‘Fat shaming under neoliberalism and COVID-19: Examining the UK’s Tackling Obesity campaign’ published in the Sociology of Health & Illness Journal...
View ArticleDoes research on medical professionalism reflect a medical ‘culture of shame’?
Becoming-a-physician through medical education is a process which can be mediated by shame experiences. The pervasiveness of shame in medical training suggests that there is a ‘shame culture’ in...
View ArticleSara Cohen Shabot Seminar
The Shame and Medicine Project and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health are thrilled to welcome to the University of Exeter Sara Cohen Shabot, Associate Professor at the Women’s...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: The Horizons of Chronic Shame
Shame and Medicine PI, Luna Dolezal’s article ‘The Horizons of Chronic Shame’ published in the Human Studies Journal is a Husserlian analysis of chronic shame, where shame is often experienced as a...
View ArticleShame and ‘This Is Going to Hurt’
The opening scene of the BBC’s television series This Is Going To Hurt (2022) finds Adam Kay (Ben Whishaw), acting registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology, asleep in his car. A sound drags him to...
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Moving Shame 2021 Workshop
Figure 1 Zine front cover by Elizabeth Fortnum. Figure 2 Zine by Elizabeth Fortnum using art created by participants at the Moving Shame (2021) workshop. Arriving home, I open my front door to find a...
View ArticleShame in Healthcare Consultations: A Case Study on Mental Health
Consultations involving mental health service users and healthcare managers are often difficult. Individuals with lived experience of mental health conditions may be less inclined to participate. This...
View Article‘Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19’ case study
The AHRC funded Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 research project, part of the Shame and Medicine project, is a featured case study for the Pandemic and Beyond Project. For further details visit...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: The effects of shame and stigma on patient care
Luna Dolezal’s editorial ‘The Effects of Shame and Stigma on Patient Care’ for the British Journal of Hospital Medicine looks at how stigma in healthcare has been associated with a range of negative...
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Book Launch
The ‘Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19’ Project team will officially launch their book COVID-19 & Shame: Political Emotions & Public Health in the UK at Bookbag on Friday 24th February...
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