Shame and Medicine. (360G-Wellcome-106517_Z_14_Z)

The Shame and Medicine Workshop will be a meeting for medical practitioners, social scientists, philosophers and medical humanities scholars to be held in the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the Trinity College Dublin Medical Humanities Initiative (http://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/projects/medical-humanities/). The main aim of the workshop will be to provide a space and opportunity for active practitioners/academics in this area to theorize on the topic as a first step to producing an ed ited collection to which the participants will contribute. There is a paucity of literature about the importance and effect of shame in medicine which is surprising given that it is a highly significant force in the clinic. The Shame and Medicine Workshop will address themes such as: the use of stigma in public health policy, shame in professional enculturation, shame and medical failure, the shame and stigma of illness, body shame, shame disorders (e.g., body dysmorphic disorder, social anx iety) and shame as spectacle on medical reality television programming (e.g. Embarrassing Bodies or Extreme Makeover). Our aim is to publish an edited collection entitled Shame and Medicine. We have already been in initial contact with Palgrave MacMillan and Oxford University Press.