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 of shame and negative self-conscious emotions in medicine and healthcare.
Shame, Health and Lived Experience was an interdisciplinary workshop that brought together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and fields to reflect on how experiences of shame may impact on health and wellbeing. Shame remains both under-theorized and under-acknowledged in the contexts of health and medicine, however individuals and practitioners commonly acknowledge that shame is often significant when considering an individual’s health status – it can be both a ‘symptom’ and a possible cause of ill health. The workshop investigated, through various disciplinary lenses and approaches, how shame manifests in lived experience and the consequences and implications for health.
Confirmed speakers:
Shame, Health and Lived Experience: Introduction – Luna Dolezal (University of Exeter). View recording.
Carsten Stage (Aarhus University) – ‘Shame and Chronic illness – Exploring the Affective Complexities of Illness-related Shame through Participatory Research on Social Media.’ View recording.
Alba Montes Sánchez (University College Cork) and Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen) – ‘The Nature and Appropriateness of Survivor Shame.’ View recording.
Dawn Leeming (University of Huddersfield) – ‘Researching a Taboo.’ View recording.
Emily Hartz (University of Copenhagen) – ‘Eldercare and the Lived Experience of Shame and Boredom.’ View recording.
Jane MacNaughton (Durham University) – ‘Shame in Women’s Reproductive Health.’ View recording.
Luna Dolezal (University of Exeter) & Barry Lyons (Children’s Health Ireland) – ‘Unsettling Consent?: Considering the Phenomenology of Shame in Clinical Encounters.’ View recording.
Phil Hutchinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) – ‘Shame’s Object(s): Interactionally Respecifying Stigma.’ View recording.
Ruth Riley (University of Surrey) – ‘Shame Associated with the Stigma of Mental Ill Health and Culture of Invulnerability in Doctors.’ View recording.
Will Bynum (Duke University) –‘Learning Medicine in the ‘Shadow of Shame’: A Qualitative Exploration of Shame Experienced across the Continuum of Medical Education.’ View recording.
Time: 28 April – 29 April 2022 (speaker time slots are CET)
Place: University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Karen Blixens Plads 8, auditorium 22.0.11 and Zoom. View map.
Organizer: Center for Subjectivity Research and ‘Shame and Medicine’ Project, University of Exeter
See also: Shame, Health and Lived Experience – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)
