NEW VISITING RESEARCHER: FRED COOPER
We are delighted to welcome Dr Fred Cooper, University of Bristol, to the Shame and Medicine Project as an Honorary Research Fellow until January 2025. Fred is a historian of medicine at @BristolUniLaw...
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My conversation with Luna Dolezal seems like a contradiction. For someone whose philosophy career has taken her deep into the emotion of shame and its powerful – sometimes troubling – effects on our...
View ArticleCall for Stories: “Uncertainty in Medicine”
Our friends at The Nocturnists are collecting stories for a new podcast series on “Uncertainty in Medicine”, a topic that “goes largely unacknowledged in medical training, as recognizing it can feel...
View ArticleWhen we hurt our patients: Shame in clinical encounters for breast cancer...
There are many reasons why shame may be experienced during treatment for breast cancer. Shame about the diagnosis, about how a lump was found (or not found) can be experienced. Shame about risk factors...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Inquiry
We are proud to see that the UKRI referenced the Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 project, via Pandemic and Beyond, for their submission to Module 4 of the COVID-19 Inquiry.
View ArticleNew Chapter: Shame
Dolezal, L. “Shame.” In Kevin Aho, Megan Altman & Hans Pedersen (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism. London: Routledge Abstract: As a philosophical approach which takes...
View ArticleHow shame highlighted the importance of deconstructing biomedical science and...
After graduating from medical school in 2018, I had an experience that led me to feel shame upon recognising that I could not communicate with patients from their perspective. Patients with chronic or...
View ArticleSupriya Subramani 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, Dr Supriya Subramani, University of Sydney, to give...
View ArticleChronic Shame, Serious Mental Illness (SMI), Lived Experience & Audit Culture
As I write this I have just come through an acute episode of shame. I’ve been hiding from myself for days. In such panic I’ve had trouble breathing. I have a tendency to hold my breath. Not on purpose,...
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‘Researching Shame’ Conference
REGISTRATION is open and speakers are announced! WHEN: 5th June 2024, 09.30 – 17.00 (Registration from 09.30, start at 10.00) WHERE: The Assembly Room, The Exchange, Birmingham FREE attendance Visit...
View ArticleWhat is the Difference Between Shame and Stigma?
When I speak to healthcare workers about shame, and why we need to understand shame and its effects, the question I hear most frequently is: “What’s the difference between shame and stigma?” Stigma has...
View ArticleExcerpt from ‘Out of Patients’
“Excerpt from Out of Patients: A Novel is published with permission from the University of Nevada Press.” Women go to physicians more than men. Partly that’s having a uterus, because menstrual...
View Article‘Researching Shame’ conference schedule released
The final schedule for our ‘Researching Shame’ conference on 5th June 2024 is now available. Please visit the event page for further information.
View ArticleShaming people is hurting, not helping our efforts to build a more equitable...
‘Shaming people is hurting, not helping our efforts to build a more equitable world’ Luna Dolezal discusses shame with Philippa Willitts for Now Then magazine Street art by Inksurgeon, on the...
View ArticleNEW CHAPTER: “The shameful dead: Vaccine hesitancy, shame and necropolitics...
Cooper, F., Dolezal, L., & Rose, A. (2024). “The shameful dead: Vaccine hesitancy, shame and necropolitics during COVID-19”. In Knowing COVID- 19. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press....
View ArticleHow permission to have shame can be a game changer
Probably the most recognised “antidote” to shame is compassion. Paul Gilbert who developed Compassion Focus Therapy originally created the model to apply to shame. Equally, Brené Brown created Shame...
View ArticleFred Cooper Seminar
‘Loneliness, shame and epistemic injustice’ (working title) Dr Fred Cooper (University of Bristol) Hybrid: 27th November 24, 13.00 – 14.00 GMT More details to follow Photo by Simon Shim on Unsplash
View ArticleIt’s a shame about shame research
I was honoured to be invited to the Researching Shame Conference in Birmingham on 5th June 2024 on account of research published more than a decade ago exploring whether shame is a concomitant of...
View ArticlePodcasts from The British Society for Phenomenology 2022 Annual Conference
Listen now to the BSP podcasts from The British Society for Phenomenology 2022 Annual Conference hosted by the University of Exeter which featured a special shame panel sponsored by Shame and Medicine...
View ArticleCongratulations
Congratulations to Luna Dolezal awarded a James Fellowship in Social Sciences SSSHARC at the University of Sydney for 2025.
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