NEW 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...
View ArticleResearching a painful taboo in healthcare
Through work such as the Shame and Medicine project we have become more aware of the significant but silent impact shame can have on healthcare. Feeling shame or embarrassment about our health problems...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: A Sartrean analysis of pandemic shaming
Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose turn to Jean-Paul Sartre to analyse the particular phenomenon of COVID-19 pandemic shaming. Abstract In this paper, we analyse the particular phenomena of COVID-19 pandemic...
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The clothes of shame
A knotted gut. Breathlessness. Intense self-loathing. Wanting to hide. Ruminating and agonising for days. Rationalisation and learning. These familiar and habitual sensations, behaviours and outcomes...
View ArticleBOOK RELEASE: COVID-19 and Shame Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK
We are excited to announce the publication of a new book: Covid-19 & Shame: Political Emotions & Public Health in the UK, by Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal & Arthur Rose...
View ArticleNEW PODCAST SERIES: Shame and the Pandemic
We are excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series “Shame and the Pandemic”, produced by Develop Audio and hosted by journalist Paul McNally. The 6-episode podcast series showcases the...
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AWARD WINNING PODCAST SERIES
We are so proud that Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest, the 10-part audio documentary series produced by The Nocturnists in collaboration with the Shame and Medicine project, at the University of...
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Maternity care for women of a higher weight – how is shame experienced?
For most women, pregnancy and birth should be a time of excitement, anticipation and promise. However, women of a higher weight* can have a negative experience of maternity care due to experiencing...
View ArticleVaccine Hesitancy, Death Shaming and COVID-19
On the 24th of August 2021, the online media platform New Frame published a satirical cartoon by the South African illustrator Carlos Amato. The cartoon depicts several rows of gravestones, each etched...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: Shame, Guilt and Medical Error in Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder
Dolezal, L and Rose, A., “Shame, Guilt, and Medical Error in Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder,” Literature and Medicine, vol. 40 no. 2, 2022, p. 326-345. Project MUSE Abstract: Through exploring the...
View ArticleVisiting Researchers
We are delighted to welcome two visiting researchers to the Shame and Medicine Project this year. Jenny Cunningham, Midwife and PhD student, Kingston University London. Jenny’s work focuses on weight...
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