Respect and Shame in Healthcare and Bioethics Workshop Series
The “Respect and Shame in Healthcare and Bioethics” Workshop Series aims to address the following questions: How are the concepts of respect, disrespect, shame and humiliation relevant to healthcare...
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Shame-Sensitive Dental Care for Patients with Complex Lives: Part I
Shame and Dentistry: Considering the Impact of Vulnerable Individuals’ Experiences People with complex lives and complex needs related to homelessness or other severe disadvantage are no strangers to...
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Shame-Sensitive Dental Care for Patients with Complex Lives: Part II
Towards Shame-Sensitive Dental Practice Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise runs a Community Dental Clinic in Plymouth for vulnerable people, including those who are affected by homelessness and who...
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Moving Shame Workshop
‘Moving Shame’ is a two day workshop organised and co-facilitated by University of Exeter PhD candidate and Shame and Medicine Project Collaborator Gemma Lucas, yoga teacher/counsellor Catherine...
View ArticleShame, Health and Lived Experience Workshop
Shame, Health and Lived Experience A 2-day workshop organised by the Centre for Subjectivity Research and the Shame and Medicine Project, an interdisciplinary research project investigating the role...
View ArticleCall for Doctors
The Shame and Medicine Project is looking for doctors who have been disciplined by the GMC and feel shame or other self-conscious emotions as a result of it. By shame we mean the emotional experience...
View ArticleHow I Came to Study Shame and Humiliation in Finnish Healthcare
The medical field is not where my own career path exists. I came to know the field from another point of view – from being the daughter of an ALS patient and a member of a family who has had many...
View ArticleCALL FOR PAPERS – PHILOSOPHY THEMATIC ISSUE (2022): JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN...
CALL FOR PAPERS – PHILOSOPHY THEMATIC ISSUE (2022): JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE Overcoming Stigma in the clinic: identifying, understanding and addressing discrimination, degradation...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: The art of medicine – COVID-19, online shaming, and health-care...
Stigma and shame have been features of past pandemics. The stigma associated with disease can be experienced as shame by those who spread it. In almost all human cultures, there is shame attached to...
View ArticleUnderstanding Experiences of Weight-Related Shame in Clinical Experience
Research shows that many people living with obesity experience weight-related shame in clinical practice. Unsolicited weight-loss advice from GPs, medical equipment that fails to accommodate larger...
View ArticleCall for Papers – JECP Special Issue –‘Respect and Shame in Healthcare and...
The Philosophy Thematic Issue (2022): Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice has put out a Call for Papers for a special section on the topic of ‘Respect and Shame in Healthcare and Bioethics.’ The...
View ArticleSamuel Beckett’s blushing body of work
Embarrassment is shame’s awkward cousin. At least, that’s the story told by many theories of emotion. Shame is a feeling that floods our whole being, that colours us to the core. Embarrassment is skin...
View ArticleBritish Society for Phenomenology’s Annual Conference
The University of Exeter and the Shame and Medicine Project will host the British Society for Phenomenology’s Annual Conference in 2022, from Tuesday 30th August – Thursday 1st September. The theme for...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to live and work within a culture of shame?
The speaking voice in my ears paused and then, with a soft breath, started to sing. I stopped in surprise. The daffodils I had watched peek through the peat and grow into spindly budded things were...
View ArticleControlling fertility, reproducing shame: UK policies and reproductive injustice
Many people think that government interference into peoples’ reproductive choices is largely a thing of the past, or only occurs in countries with repressive governments. Given this widespread...
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New Artwork: Graphic Medicine Project
Following on from the Call for Artists for our Graphic Medicine Project and in collaboration with The Shame Conversation we are delighted and excited to share with you the art work by Hannah Mumby,...
View ArticleShame and Medical History Seminar Series
The Shame and Medicine Project in collaboration with the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, will run a seminar series over the next few years which will examine shame and stigma in...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: Shame, Stigma and HIV
Shame, Stigma and HIV – Considering Affective Climates and the Phenomenology of Shame Anxiety The affective climate often associated with HIV prevention and care practices is often dominated by...
View ArticleHiding in shame: the history of the early Dutch family movement in psychiatry
Once upon a time, a young Dutchman emigrated across the Atlantic in hopes of making his American dream come true. Some decades later, he was indeed a successful businessman, a millionaire, and...
View ArticleShame, ‘Common Sense’, and COVID-19: Notes from Mass Observation
On the 6th of July 2021, the health secretary, Sajid Javid, announced that the UK had entered a ‘new chapter’ of the COVID-19 pandemic ‘based on the foundations of personal responsibility and common...
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