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dc.contributor.authorCooper, F
dc.contributor.authorDolezal, L
dc.contributor.authorRose, A
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-07T15:32:33Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-17
dc.date.updated2023-02-07T15:07:47Z
dc.description.abstractThis open access book examines the various ways that shame and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom’s public health response to COVID-19 during 2020, this book argues that there is an urgent need for public health interventions that are “shame sensitive,” addressing the experience of shame as a crucial, if often overlooked, consequence of such interventions. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, interventions by the UK government maximised rather than minimized experiences of shame and stigma. From healthcare workers insulted in the streets to the online shaming of “Covidiots” and the “lepers of Leiceister”, for example, public animus about the pandemic found scapegoats for its frustrations. But, rather than intervene with robust strategies to sensitize people about the effects of this behaviour, the government’s healthcare policies and rhetoric seemed to exacerbate experiences of shame and stigma, relying on a language that intensified oppositional, antagonistic thinking, while dissimulating about its own responsibilities. Through a series of case studies around topics such as 'fat shaming', the term 'covidiots', and racial profiling, this provocative book identifies a systemic failure to manage stigma and shame-producing circumstances in four key ‘scenes’: healthcare contexts, social situations, domestic life and political decision-makingen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipWellcome Trusten_GB
dc.format.extent0 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.5040/9781350283442
dc.identifier.grantnumberAH/V013483/1en_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumber217879/Z/19/Zen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/132432
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0002-8868-8385 (Dolezal, Luna)
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherBloomsbury Academicen_GB
dc.rights© Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose, 2023. This work is published open access subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). You may re-use, distribute, reproduce, and adapt this work in any medium, including for commercial purposes, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes have been made.en_GB
dc.titleCOVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UKen_GB
dc.typeBooken_GB
dc.date.available2023-02-07T15:32:33Z
dc.identifier.isbn9781350283442
dc.identifier.isbn1350283444
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from Bloomsbury Academic via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
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rioxxterms.typeBooken_GB
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© Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose, 2023. This work is published open access subject to a Creative Commons  Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).  You may re-use, distribute, reproduce, and adapt this work in any medium,  including for commercial purposes, provided you give attribution to the  copyright holder and the publisher, provide a link to the Creative  Commons licence, and indicate if changes have been made.
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