Shame and Medicine Project Newsletter

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A two day hybrid workshop at the University of Copenhagen and co-organized with the Centre for Subjectivity Research. Shame, Health and Lived Experience is an interdisciplinary workshop to reflect on how experiences of shame may impact on health, wellbeing and medical practice.

View schedule (all times CET).

'Shame and Medical History' Seminar Series
5th May 2022 – Dr Anne Hanley
(University of Birmingham) -
‘I am polluted to the marrow, soaked in abomination!’ Shame and Sexual Health in Modern Britain.’
Register online or in person.

6th October 2022 – Dr Michael Brown (University of Roehampton) -
More information to follow.

The University of Exeter and the Shame and Medicine Project will host the British Society for Phenomenology’s Annual Conference in 2022, from 30 Aug – 1 Sept. The theme is “Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions and Sociality”, with a panel on “Phenomenology and Shame Experiences” sponsored by the Shame and Medicine Project.

CALL FOR PAPERS
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 deadline for submission of all manuscripts is 22nd April 2022.

RECENT PROJECT ACTIVITIES
We’re very proud of our team member Arthur Rose whose new book Asbestos: The Last Modernist Object is being published very soon! Watch Luna Dolezal present ‘Pandemic Shaming and Healthcare Workers’ at the Humanities and Medicine Seminar Series, University of Limerick. Listen to Fred Cooper speaking at the Pandemic & Beyond Communication & Messaging during COVID-19 policy webinar.

PODCAST COLLABORATION NEWS
Congratulations to The Nocturnists for their award of Best Health Podcast at the Quill Podcast Awards. Shame and Medicine is proud to be collaborating with The Nocturnists on the upcoming Shame in Medicine podcast series. The series' latest Call for Voices invites healthcare workers to submit stories about how early-life events, patterns, or relationships may have affected the way they experience shame in healthcare.

CALL FOR DOCTORS & PATIENTS
We are keen to hear from Doctors and Patients who would like to take part in our research - to register an interest in taking part, visit www.samp.uk or contact Dr Stephen Williams at S.J.Williams@bham.ac.uk.

Dr Hannah Farrimond 's blog (University of Exeter) "Understanding ongoing stigma in COVID-19" is an insightful reflection about how stigma has mutated during the pandemic.

Dr Georgina Budd's "Shame on you for being human: Combating physician fears of disclosing mental health struggles" blog is a powerful personal reflection on shame, vulnerability and the challenges of becoming a doctor.

Health-related shame: an affective determinant of health?

Luna Dolezal and Barry Lyons examine how despite shame being recognised as a powerful force in the clinical encounter, it is underacknowledged, under-researched and undertheorised in the contexts of health and medicine.