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Zusatztext Through both a “shame lens” and “shame sensitive practice,” readers in the medical humanities will gain tools and theory to interrogate the relationship between emotions and medical practice, looking to the heart of healthcare in society. Informationen zum Autor Fred Cooper is a research fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, UK. He is a historian of loneliness, health, medicine, and the psy and social sciences, and co-investigator (with Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose) on the AHRC urgent grant ‘Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19’. Luna Dolezal is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK. Arthur Rose is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Klappentext This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom's public health response to COVID-19 during 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, it quickly became clear that experiences of shame, shaming and stigma dominated personal and public life. From healthcare workers insulted in the streets to anti-Asian racism, the online shaming of "Covidiots" to the identification of the "lepers of Leicester", public animus about the pandemic found scapegoats for its frustrations. Interventions by the UK government maximised rather than minimized these phenomena. Instead of developing robust strategies to address shame, the government's healthcare policies and rhetoric seemed to exacerbate experiences of shame, shaming and stigma, relying on a language and logic that intensified oppositional, antagonistic thinking, while dissimulating about its own responsibilities. Through a series of six case studies taken from the events of 2020, this thought-provoking book identifies a systemic failure to manage shame-producing circumstances in the UK. Ultimately, it addresses the experience of shame as a crucial, if often overlooked, consequence of pandemic politics, and advocates for a "shame sensitive" approach to public health responses. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust. Vorwort Examining how shame and stigma became part of the UK's public health response to COVID-19, this book argues for “shame sensitive” interventions. Zusammenfassung Examining how shame and stigma became part of the UK's public health response to COVID-19, this book argues for “shame sensitive” interventions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - 'The Public Shaming Pandemic' Chapter 1 - Covidiots!: The Language of Pandemic Chapter 2 - Super-spreaders: Shaming Healthcare Professionals Chapter 3 - Coughing while Asian: Shame and Racialized Bodies Chapter 4 - "I was too fat": Boris Johnson and the Fat Panic Chapter 5 - Good Solid British Common Sense: Shame and Surveillance in Everyday Life Chapter 6 - Operation Moonshot: Notes on Saving Face Conclusion - Beyond Plague Island ...
