What we are reading

The Shame and Medicine Project team meet every 6 weeks as a reading group.  Here are some of articles, chapters and books we’ve been reading.

Book Chapters:

• Gibson, M. (2019) ‘Conclusion’ in Pride and Shame in Child and Family Social Work. Bristol University Press, pp.187-203.
• Bartky, SL. (1990) ‘Shame and Gender’ in Femininity and Domination. Psychology Press, pp.83-98.
• Larson, MS. Ch.3 ‘An Analysis of Medicine’s Professional Success’ in The Rise of Professionalism: Monopolies of Competence and Sheltered Markets (1st ed.). Routledge, pp.19-39.
• Mann, Bonnie. (2014). ‘Shame’ in Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror. Oxford University Press, pp. 108-117.
• Ofri, D. (2013) ‘Burning with Shame’ in What Doctors Feel. Daniell Ofri, Beacon Press.
• Harris-Perry, M V. (2013) ‘Shame’ in ‘Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.’ Yale University Press.

• Ainsworth S, Flanagan S. Contradictions concerning care: Female surgeons’ accounts of the repression and resurfacing of care in their profession. Gender Work Organ. 2020; 27: 251–269.
• Brennan ME, Bell K, Hamid G, Gilchrist J, Gillingham J. Consumer experiences of shame in clinical encounters for breast cancer treatment. “Who do you think you are- Angelina Jolie?”. Breast. 2023 Dec;72:103587.
• Elks, M. L. “Rituals and Roles in Medical Practice.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 39 no. 4, 1996, p. 601-609. Project MUSE,
• Lazare A. Shame and humiliation in the medical encounter. Arch Intern Med. 1987 Sep;147(9):1653-8.
• Retzinger SM. Identifying Shame and Anger in Discourse. American Behavioral Scientist. 1995;38(8):1104-1113.
• Creed, William Edward & Hudson, Bryant & Okhuysen, Gerardo & Smith-Crowe, Kristin. (2014). Swimming in a Sea of Shame: Incorporating Emotion into Explanations of Institutional Reproduction and Change. Academy of Management Review. 39. 275-301.
• Scheff TJ. Shame and the Social Bond: A Sociological Theory. Sociological Theory. 2000;18(1):84-99.
• Gausel, Nicolay & Leach, Colin. (2011). Concern for self‐image and social image in the management of moral failure: Rethinking shame. European Journal of Social Psychology. 41. 468 – 478.
• Stets, J.E. (2006). Identity Theory and Emotions. In: Stets, J.E., Turner, J.H. (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA.
• Timmermans S, Oh H. The continued social transformation of the medical profession. J Health Soc Behav. 2010;51 Suppl:S94-106.
• Varpio, L. (2023). Dismantling medical education’s incompatible ideology. Medical Teacher, 45(7), 766–771.
• Westerlund, F. Exposed: On Shame and Nakedness. Philosophia 51, 2195–2223 (2023).

Graphic Medicine:

• Williams, I. (2014) The Bad Doctor. Myriad Editions.
• Jauregui, G & Derbez, E.. (2022) Sera deseada, Balance AC.

Other:

• ‘Fair to Refer’ report, June 2019
• Episode 8 ‘In Hiding of The Nocturnists’ Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest