Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Folker L, Dolezal L, Jespersen AP, Paisi M, Withers L, Worle C, Øzhayat EB. Dental Shame: A Call for Understanding and Addressing the Role of Shame in Oral Health. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2025 Sep 21. doi: Open Access.*

Cooper, F., Dolezal, L. & Rose, A. Shame-Sensitive Public Health. J Med Humanit 46, 59–73 (2025). *~ Open Access.

Lyons B, Dolezal L. Shame, health literacy and consent. Clinical Ethics. 2024 Jun;19(2):150-156. * Open Access.

Dolezal, L., Rose, A. A Sartrean analysis of pandemic shaming. Phenom Cogn Sci (2023).* Open Access.

Dolezal, L., Ratcliffe, M. Emotions of the pandemic: phenomenological perspectives. Phenom Cogn Sci (2023). *Open Access.

Dolezal, L., Spratt, T. (2023). Fat shaming under neoliberalism and COVID-19: Examining the UK’s Tackling Obesity campaign. Sociology of Health & Illness, 45 (1), 3– 18. *~ Open Access.

Dolezal, L. and Rose, A. Shame, Guilt and Medical Error in Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder.Literature and Medicine, 40 (2), 326-345. (2022) Project MUSE.* Open Access.

Dolezal, L., Editorial: ‘The Effects of Shame and Stigma on Patient Care.’ British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 21 Nov 2022.* Access here.

Dolezal, L., ‘The Horizons of Chronic Shame.’ Hum Stud 45, 739–759 (2022).* Open Access.

Dolezal L. Shame anxiety, stigma and clinical encounters. J Eval Clin Pract. Vol. 28, No. 5, 2022; 854-860. * Open Access.

Dolezal, L., Gibson, M. Beyond a trauma-informed approach and towards shame-sensitive practice. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Vol.9. 2022. 214.* Open Access.

Rose, A. Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending. Centaurus: Journal of the European Society for the History of Science. Vol. 1. No. 1. 2022. 1-12.*~ Open Access.

Davies, O., Dolezal, L., Bynum, W.E., Wu, C., and Berry, H. ‘Needlestick’. New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 386 (2022) 1587-1589.* Open Access.

Stanier, J., Miglio, N. and Dolezal, L. Pandemic Politics and Phenomenology: Editors’ Introduction. Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology Vol. 5. 2022. No. 1, 1-12.*~ Open Access.

Dolezal, L. and Lucas, G. Differential Experiences of Social Distancing: Considering Alienated Embodied Communication and Racism. Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology Vol. 5. 2022. No. 1, 97-105.*~ Open Access.

Dolezal, L., Rose, A., and Cooper, F. COVID-19, Online Shaming and Healthcare Professionals. The Lancet. Vol 398. August 2021: 482-483*~ Open Access.

Dolezal, L. Shame, Stigma and HIV: Considering Affective Climates and the Phenomenology of Shame Anxiety. Lambda Nordica. Vol 26. No.2-3. November 2021.* Open Access.

Rose, A. Imagining Breath, Imagining 9/11 in Indra Singha’S Animal People. Studies In the Novel. Vol. 53, No. 4, Spring 2021: 69-85~ Open Access.

Lyons, B., Gibson, M., and Dolezal, L. Stories of Shame. The Lancet. Vol. 391, 2018: 1568-69. Open Access.

Rose, A. Shame-to-cynicism conversion in The Citadel and The House of God. Medical Humanities. Published Online First: 16 June 2020. Open Access.

Dolezal, L. and Lyons, B. Health-related Shame: An Affective Determinant of Health? Medical Humanities. Vol. 43, No. 4, December 2017: 257-263. Open Access.**

Lyons, B. and Dolezal, L. Shame, Stigma and Medicine: Editorial. Medical Humanities. Vol. 43, No. 4: December 2017: 208-210. Open Access.**

Dolezal, L. Shame, Vulnerability and Belonging: Reconsidering Sartre’s Account of Shame. Human Studies. . Vol. 40, No. 3, 2017: 421-438. Open Access.

Dolezal, L. The Phenomenology of Shame in the Clinical Encounter. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 4. 2015: 567-576. Open Access.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

Rose, A. & Dolezal, L. (Eds.) Special Issue of Literature and Medicine on Shame and Medicine. Call For Papers. (Expected publication Spring 2025).

Dolezal, L., Ratcliffe, M. Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on Emotions of the pandemic: phenomenological perspectives. (2023). Open Access.

Loughlin, M., Dolezal, L., Hutchinson, P, Subramani, S., Milani, R., Lafarge, C. (Editors), ‘Philosophy Thematic Issue: Philosophy and the clinic: Stigma, respect and shame’, Special Issue of Journal of Evaluation for Clinical Practice. Vol.28, No. 5, 2022. Open Access.

Stanier, J., Miglio, N. and Dolezal, L. (Eds.) Special Issue of Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology Vol. 5, No. 1, 2022.*~ Open Access.

Dolezal, L. & Lyons, B. (Eds.) Special Issue of Medical Humanities on Shame, Stigma and Medicine. Vol. 43, No. 4, December 2017. Access here.

BOOK CHAPTERS

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. Open Access.

Dolezal, L. “Shame.” in Aho, K., Altman, M., & Pedersen, H. (Eds.). (2024). The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism (1st ed.). Routledge. Access here.

Dolezal, L. “Feminism, Embodiment and Emotions.” In Thomas Szanto & Hilge Landweer (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion. London: Routledge, 2020. Access here.

Dolezal, L. Body Shame and Female Experience. In Dem Erleben Auf Der Spur: Feminismus und Phänomenologie [Discovering Lived Experience: Feminism and Phenomenology]. Edited by Hilge Landweer and Isabella Marcinski. Transcript Press, November 2016. Open Access.

ONLINE ARTICLES

Rose, A. and Dolezal, L. Saving Face and Public Health. BMJ Medical Humanities Blog, 26 May 2020. Available online.*

Rose, A. and Dolezal, L. Stigma and the Logics of Wartime. Covid-19, Fieldsights, 5 May 2020. Available online.*

Dolezal, L. and Rose, A. Naming and Shaming: Covid-19 and the Health Professional. BMJ Medical Humanities Blog, 7 April 2020. Available online.

Dolezal, L. and Lyons, B. Shaming People About their Lifestyle Habits Does Nothing to Improve Their Health. The Conversation. 5 December 2017. Available online.

Dolezal, L. Can Plastic Surgery Make You More Authentic?: Authenticity, Shame and Cosmetic Surgery, IAI Magazine, Vol. 60, 14 November, 2017. Available online.

BOOKS

Cooper, F., Dolezal and, L., & Rose, A. (2023). COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities). London,: Bloomsbury Academic. Open Access.*~

GRAPHIC MEDICINE

Purwono, G. Y., Dolezal, L., Navarro-Páez, J., Wu, C. A., Bynum, W. & Bay, A., (2025) “Imposter”, Graphic Medicine Review 5(2). Open Access.

Vilkelyte, V., Dolezal, L., Navarro-Páez, J. et al. The Room. J Med Humanit 46, 259–265 (2025).* Open Access.

Davies, O., Dolezal, L., Bynum, W.E., Wu, C., and Berry, H. ‘Needlestick’. New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 386 (2022) 1587-1589.* Open Access.

View all Shame and Medicine Graphic Medicine outputs at The Shame Space.

TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

2025

Rose, A. ‘The Role of Shame in Patient/Provider Encounters and Medical Culture: A View from the Health Humanities’, Health Humanities Lecture Series, St. Luke’s International University, Japan, 30 October 2025.

Dolezal, L. ‘Shame in Medicine: Understanding Shame’s Effects for Patients, Medical Students and Clinicians’, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama University, Japan, 28 October 2025.*

Lyons, B. ‘Shame, Self-Dislike and Medical Practice’, Critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society: University of Bristol, 15 October 2025.

Dolezal, L. ‘Anticipating Shame in Healthcare’, Emotions in Healthcare Workshop, University of Sydney, 21 August 2025.*

Dolezal, L. Structural Shame and Emotional Priviliege, Gender & Cultural Studies Departmental Seminar, University of Sydney, 15 August 2025.*

Rose, A ‘Preface to Poemas Fibras’, 2^nd International Congress of Ecological Humanities, Barclelona, 30 June – 1 July, 2025.

Rose, A. ‘Shameful History of Asbestos Contamination,’ Residue & Oblivion Conference, University of Grenoble, 23-24 June 2025.

Gibson, M., Kokab, F., Williams, S., ‘Hidden Injuries of Medicine: Findings from a 5-year Empirical Study into Shame in Medicine’, Shame and Medicine Conference, University of Exeter, 11-12 June 2025.*

Rose, A. “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Shame and Medicine: John Berger’s A Fortunate Man (1967) and Polly Morland’s A Fortunate Woman (2022)”, Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network, January 2025.*

2024

Dolezal, L. ‘The Hidden Harm: Understanding and Addressing the Consequences of Patient Shaming’ University of Sussex, 28 November 2024.* View recording.

Dolezal, L. ‘Shame Sensitive Professional Practice’, Social Psychology Seminar, University of Kent, 3 October 2024.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Shame sensitive practice in health’, National Trauma Network, 10 September 2024.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Shame and Medicine’, 56th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Medical Education, Tokyo, 9th and 10th August 2024.* Watch recording.

Gibson, M. (2024). “Shame sensitive practice.” Invited speaker. In Tusla – Child and Family Agency, 10-11, June, 2024. Dublin, Ireland: TUSLA.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Shame and Medicine’, The Future of Medical/Health Humanities Workshop, Rice University, Global Paris Campus, 25th May 2024.*

Dolezal, L. ‘The Horizons of Chronic Shame’, Philosophy Seminar Series, University of Innsbruck, 24th April 2024.*

Gibson, M. (2024) “Shame sensitive practice.” Invited speaker. In Birmingham Children’s Trust Practice Week, 24, April, 2024. Birmingham: Birmingham Children’s Trust.*

Rose, A. ‘‘Investigating Shame through Postcolonial Doctor Memoirs’, University of Sydney, 5th March 2024.*

2023

Rose, A., ‘Shame Literary’ at EASA International Conference 2023, EASA Conference, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 7-8 Dec 2023.*

Dolezal, L., and Cooper, F. ‘COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Death Shaming’ at ‘Affect, the Clinic and the spectre of Death’, Tampere University, Finland, 28-29 Nov 2023.*~

Rose, A., “The city is built on a grid: Colonial Flânerie and Shame in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins”, MSA, Brooklyn, New York, 26-29 Oct 2023.*

Rose, A., Shaming as a Public Health Strategy, South African Association of Health Educationalists (SAAHE), 20 Sept 2023.*

Rose, A., ‘Shame, Reparation and Maintenance’, ASLE-UKI, University of Liverpool, 30 Aug – 1 Sept 2023.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Why Healthcare Workers Need to Understand Shame and Its Effects’, Duke AHEAD Academy for Health Professions, Education, and Academic Development, Duke University, 26 July 2023.

Bynum, W., Dolezal, L., Navarro-Páez, J., Wu, C., ‘Shame, storytelling, and medicine: Creating a graphic medicine collaboration’, Graphic Medicine Conference, University of Toronto, 15 July 2023.*

Navarro-Páez, J., ‘Comics, Healthcare, and Shame,’ at Comics 2023 Conference, University of Cambridge, 3-7 July 2023.*

Rose, A., Shame Case Study in Environmental Postcolonial Formalism Panel at EACLALS Triennial Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, 6-10 June 23.*

Dolezal, L., ‘The Phenomenology of the Remote Body in Medicine: Considering Shame in Telemedicine,’ “British Society for Phenomenology International Symposium”, Università degli Studi di Milano, 29-30 May 2023.*

Lyons, B., ‘Second Victim Shame,’ Building a Just Culture in Healthcare: a HSE Dialogue, Dublin, 23rd May 2023.*

Rose, A., ‘The Critical Role of Shame’, at The Functions of Criticism, University of Cambridge, 19-20 May 2023.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Top Tips in 10: Tips for ‘Shame-Sensitive Practice’, Australian Society of Rehabilitative Counsellors (ASORC) Annual Conference, 16-17 May 2023.*

Dolezal, L., ‘The Phenomenology of the Remote Body in Medicine: Considering Shame in Telemedicine,’ at “The Medicalised Body”, University of Edinburgh, 11-12 May 2023.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Why a Trauma-Informed Approach Requires Shame-Sensitive Practice’, South Gloucestershire Council Cluster 1 EHCN Meeting, 27 April 2023.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Reducing Harm through Understanding Shame’, Reducing Harm Conference, Devon & Cornwall Police, 25 April 2023.*

Rose, A. ‘Humour and Shame in the Medical Memoir.’ Literature and Science Forum, 19 April 2023.* Watch recording.

Dolezal, L. ‘Why a Trauma-Informed Approach Requires Shame-Sensitive Practice’, GELPHA Trauma-Informed Policing and Law Enforcement Special Interest Group Meeting, 13 April 2023.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Why a Trauma-Informed Approach Requires Shame-Sensitive Practice’, South Gloustershire Trauma Ambassador Event, 11 January 2023.*

2022

Dolezal, L., ‘A Sartrean Analysis of Pandemic Shaming’, Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, 2 Dec 2022.*

Rose, A., ‘Shame and Medicine in This Is Going to Hurt’, University of East Anglia’s Medical & Health Humanities Network, 10 Nov 2022.*

Gibson, M., ‘Beyond A Trauma-Informed Approach Towards Shame-Sensitive Practice,’ University of Birmingham, 2 Nov 2022.* Watch recording.

Rose, A., ‘Shame and Medicine’, Centre for Health Research in the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, 27 Oct 2022.*

Rose, A., ‘Shame and Medicine’, Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities at Lund University, 26 Oct 2022.*

Dolezal, L., ‘Shame and COVID-19’, Southern Denmark University, 25 Oct 2022*~

Dolezal, L., ‘A Feminist Phenomenology of Chronic Shame’, SPSPA PGR Conference, University of Exeter, 6-7 October 2022.*

Cooper, F. and Dolezal, L., ‘Shame-Sensitive Public Health’, Medical Humanities and Covid/Post-Covid Challenges Conference, Linköping University, 19-21 Sept 2022.*~

Navarro-Páez, J. ‘Graphic Medicine and Shame: How and Why Do We Show (Or Don’t) Shame Experiences within the Healthcare Context through Comics.’ 2022 Graphic Medicine Annual Conference, University of Chicago, 14-16 July 2022.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Why a Trauma-Informed Approach Requires Shame-Sensitive Practice’, Academy for Social Justice, 30 June 2022.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Why a Trauma-Informed Approach Requires Shame-Sensitive Practice.’ NPCC Four Nations Trauma Informed Virtual Conference, 21-22 June 2022.* Watch recording.

Rose, A. ‘Shame, Stigma and COVID-19’. Futures Ahead Conference, Linköping University, 15-17 June, 2022*~

Dolezal, L. ‘Why a Trauma-Informed approach Requires Shame-Sensitive Practice’, Trauma as a Critical Lens Symposium, University of Exeter, 10 June 2022

Dolezal, L. and Fischer, C. “Losing the Body-as-Home?: Nostalgia, Embodiment and the Phenomenology of Illness” Nostalgia Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis Workshop, University of Vienna, 20 May 2022.*~

Dolezal, L. ‘Horizons of Chronic Shame’, at Dublin Philosophy Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, 13-14 April 2022.*

Dolezal, L. ‘A Sartrean Analysis of Pandemic Shaming’, at the Philosophy Department Seminar Series, University of York, 16 March 2022.*~

Dolezal, L. ‘Pandemic Shaming and Healthcare Workers’, at the Humanities and Medicine Seminar Series, University of Limerick, 9 March 2022.*~ Watch recording

Dolezal, L. “Trauma and Shame: Considering Tools for Shame-Sensitive Practice” at the Devon Trauma Network Group Meeting, 31 January 2022.*

Dolezal, L. ‘The Horizons of Chronic Shame’, at the Philosophy Department Invited Speakers Seminar, NUI Galway, 26 January 2022.*

2021

Dolezal, L. “Considering Shame and Shame-Sensitive Practice in Policing” at Research and Practice in Conversation: A Policing Lab Virtual Event, University of Exeter, 14 December 2021.* Watch recording.

Dolezal, L. “Why a ‘Trauma-Informed Approach’ Requires ‘Shame-Sensitive Practice” at the Plymouth Trauma Network Group Meeting, 24 November 2021.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Healthcare Workers and Online Shaming During COVID-19’, at the Media, Communication & COVID-19 Speaker Series, Bournemouth University, 27 October 2021.*~ Watch recording.

Dolezal, L. “Social Distancing as Familiar and Unfamiliar: Considering Alienated Embodied Communication and Racism” at the Senses of Familiarity and Togetherness Workshop, University of Padova, 8 October 2021.*~

Dolezal, L. and Rose, A. ‘A Sartrean Analysis of Pandemic Shaming’ at the Affective Enclaves Workshop, University of Copenhagen, 4 October 2021.*~

Dolezal, L. ‘Trauma and Shame: Shame-Sensitive Practice in Trauma-Informed Approaches to Healthcare’, at the Respect and Shame in Healthcare and Bioethics Workshop Series, 1 October 2021.* Watch recording.

Dolezal, L. The Horizons of Chronic Shame. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) 59^th Annual Conference, 25 September 2021.*

Rose, A. ‘Covidiots! Shame, Stigma and Bad Words during Covid-19.’ Medical Humanities Colloquy 2.0, 14 September 2021.*~ Watch recording.

Cooper, F. ‘Young People and Covid-19: Understanding Loneliness and Avoiding Shame’, WHO Europe Policy Forum on Behavioural and Cultural Insights: Maintaining Public Support during Covid-19, Copenhagen, July 2021.~

Dolezal, L. ‘Chronic Shame and the Experience of Stigma’, Beyond the Pigeon Holes: Dutch Stigma Symposium, Open Universiteit, 18 June 2021.* Watch recording.

Rose, A. ‘Asbestos, Shame and Remembered Space’, Association for Medical Humanities Conference 2021, 15 June, 2021.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Shame and Performance in Clinical Encounters’, Medicine as Theatre, Theatre as Medicine Radcliffe Seminar, Harvard University, 4 June, 2021.*

Dolezal, L., Cooper, F. and Rose, A. ‘Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19’ Panel at Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) (In)visibility conference, Durham University, 22 April, 2021.*~

Dolezal, L. ‘The Politics of Shame’, University of Roehampton RIP An Evening with a Philosopher Lecture Series, 14 April, 2021.*~

Dolezal, L. and Rose, A. ‘Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19’, Health Humanities Consortium, Penn State, 25 March, 2021.*~

Dolezal, L. ‘Fat Shaming’ under Neoliberalism and COVID-19: Examining the UK’s ‘Tackling Obesity’ Campaign”, Centre for Health, Humanities and Science (CHHS), University of Bristol, Invited Talk, 3 February 2021.*~

Dolezal, L. ‘Fat Shaming and the ‘Tackling Obesity’ Campaign’, Viral Rhetorics, GW4 Rhetoric in Society Event, 14 January 2021.*~

2020

Dolezal, L. ‘Chronic Shame and Trauma’ at Plymouth Trauma Network Group meeting, 1 December, 2020.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Shame, Stigma and COVID-19’ at “COVID Societies: What is the place of the social sciences and humanities in pandemic times?” Seminar co-hosted by Egenis and WCCCEH, University of Exeter. 9 October, 2020.*

Dolezal, L. ‘Chronic Shame and Trauma’ at Plymouth Trauma Network Lived Experience Group meeting, 29 September, 2020.*

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*Supported by ‘Shame and Medicine’ Wellcome Collaborative Award [217879/Z/19/Z].

**Supported by ‘Shame and Medicine’ Wellcome Seed Award [201518/Z/16/Z]

~Supported by ‘Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19’ AHRC Award [AH/V013483/1]

Medical Humanities Shame, Stigma & Medicine SI Cover

Special Issue of Medical Humanities on Shame, Stigma and Medicine. Vol. 43, No.4, December 2017.