What 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 ArticlePeter Miller Seminar
The Shame and Medicine Project and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health are pleased to welcome to the University of Exeter, Peter Miller, Professor of Violence Prevention and...
View ArticleFred Cooper Seminar
DATE: Hybrid 27th November 24, 13.00 – 14.00 GMT WATCH RECORDING TITLE: ‘Carmita Wood in her own words: Shame, loneliness, and epistemic injustice at a speak-out on sexual harassment in Ithaca in...
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.
View ArticlePersonal responsibility vs social determinants of health: how us GPs can...
I’ve enjoyed The BMJ’s focus on societal causes of ill health recently and Dr Lucinda Hiam et al’s article deeply resonated with me. Mainly because as a GP, I’ve always been troubled by my colleagues,...
View ArticleNew Article: ‘Shame-Sensitive Public Health: A Post Covid-19 Challenge’
Cooper, F., Dolezal, L. & Rose, A. Shame-Sensitive Public Health. J Med Humanit (2024).*~ Open Access. Abstract In this article, we argue that shaming interventions and messages during Covid-19...
View ArticleThe courage to blush: a story of shame, healing and psychological safety in...
The song of Hiawatha marked my first encounter with shame and the accompanying hot blush that would plague me for 20+ years. It’s strange how such a mundane situation can embed itself so deeply. Only...
View ArticleIs Shame so Bad? Distinguishing shame, guilt and embarrassment
My PhD research examines the harm of shame within NHS maternity wards. What I have discovered is that misunderstandings around how shame is experienced lead some healthcare professionals to suggest...
View ArticleCongratulations
Congratulations to Arthur Rose, Engaged Research Fellow for the Shame and Medicine Project, whose book ‘Asbestos – The Last Modernist Object’ has received the European Society for the Study of English...
View ArticleWelcome to our Visiting Scholars
We are delighted to welcome two Visiting Scholars to the Shame and Medicine Project. Dr Katharine Cheston and Prof Peter Miller. Read Katharine’s blog for the Shame and Medicine Project. Prof Peter...
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Call for Papers – Shame and Medicine 2025 Conference
For all details please visit our Conference event page.
View ArticleShame in the Third Person
That morning, the shouting pertained to a scan that the senior registrar said was needed for the very poorly elderly lady in Bed 7, whom the young doctor had been looking after for several days […] The...
View ArticleNew Graphic Medicine Piece
Vilkelyte, V., Dolezal, L., Navarro-Páez, J. et al. The Room. J Med Humanit (2024).* Open Access. We are delighted to share our latest Graphic Medicine piece ‘The Room’. Experiences of shame are...
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