Shame and Medical History Seminar Series

The Shame and Medicine Project’s, in collaboration with the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, seminar series which examines shame and stigma in the context of medical history.

• View recording – 23 November 2023 (online only) – 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.’