Shame Competence Training
Alongside the Shame and Medicine Project, and funded separately, Luna Dolezal has worked in collaboration with the Devon & Cornwall Police to develop an innovative and evidence-based ‘shame...
View ArticleNew Funding: Shame Competence Training
We are delighted to announce Luna Dolezal’s successful funding bid to produce, in collaboration with Devon & Cornwall Police, an innovative and evidence-based Shame Competence Training product that...
View ArticleOn Shame, Empathy, and COVID-19 vaccinations
We have all likely felt shame during the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps you felt ashamed of not being “productive enough” while working at home. Perhaps you felt shame when you got sick with COVID-19 and...
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New Article: Needlestick
In 2021, the Shame and Medicine Project (University of Exeter) and The Shame Conversation (Duke University) put out a Call for Artists as part of their Graphic Medicine project. The aim of the project...
View ArticleNew article: Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending
In his article, ‘Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending’ published in Centaurus – Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, Shame and Medicine research team member Arthur Rose...
View Article“Medicine and doctors, be humble!”
“Medicine and doctors, be humble!” Medicine is meaningless I am a doctor who assumed the power of medicine My job is to diagnose and treat patients I was taught that doctors were virtuous people My...
View ArticleNew Funding: Duke-Exeter Accelerator Grant
Congratulations to Will Bynum and Luna Dolezal for their successful Duke-Exeter Accelerator Grant funding bid entitled ‘Shame in Health Professions Education: Integrating Cross-Cultural Perspectives.’...
View ArticleShame-Sensitive Public Health and COVID-19 Briefing
The Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 team have prepared a briefing, Shame-Sensitive Public Health and COVID-19, for the WHO Europe’s Behavioural and Cultural Insights Hub. Synthesising research...
View ArticleShiloh Whitney seminar
We are excited to welcome to Exeter Shiloh Whitney, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, to give a seminar on “Anger Gaslighting and Affective Injustice” on Wednesday 9th November...
View ArticleMy medical education
When I look back at my early 20’s and my time at medical school, shame overshadows much of my experiences. There is so much joy, and I have been so privileged, but shame has an ability to hide this. I...
View ArticleNEW 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...
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