Shame 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 the context of medical history.

Seminars are hybrid events and will take place on Thursdays from 2-3.30 GMT.

No seminar currently scheduled.

Previous seminars:

• View recording – 15th May 2025, Dr Mara Pieri (University of Coimbra) – ‘Shame, pride, and all the invisible things: the emotions regulating access to healthcare.’
• View recording – 27th March 2025 – Dr Emily Cock (Cardiff University) – “very Vulgar and too Familier”: shame and healthcare in the early modern household
• View recording –  8th February 2024 – Dr Jennifer Evans (University of Hertfordshire) – ‘‘He was ashamed to let me know of it, and thought to have got cured otherwise without my knowledge’: Medical writer’s quibbles about genitourinary patients in early modern England.’
• View recording – 23 November 2023 – Professor Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) – ‘Shame in Narratives of Reproductive and Sexual Health in Twentieth-century Ireland’.
• View recording – 4th May 2023 – Dr Michael Brown (Lancaster University) – ‘Bodily Shame in Romantic Surgery’.
• View recording – 9th March 2023 – Dr Fred Cooper (University of Exeter) – ‘Loneliness and Shame: Towards a Historical Genealogy.’
• View recording – 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.’

These seminars are approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 2 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s) each.  A certificate of attendance will be issued.