Luna Dolezal
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19 appearances
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first heard Sep 2022
last heard Sep 2022
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And so one thing I found listening to the other series of the Nocturnists, the stories from the pandemic and Black Voices in Healthcare, I just heard shame coming up over and over again in these stories.
There are stories about not fitting in, not feeling good enough, stories about mistakes and failure, feeling inadequate in different ways.
What was really interesting was like shame was coming up over and over again, but also at the same time, it was never actually spoken.
So shame was like this present absence in many of the stories I heard.
And it was one of the things I said to Emily was like, people are talking about shame, but nobody's saying the word shame.
Like we're not naming this affective or emotional force that is having such a profound impact on us.
people and what they're up to in healthcare.
And so it was kind of like bringing the subterranean or what's underground to light, bringing it up to the surface by actually naming the shame and just let's just have the stories be about shame and let's just get that out in the open and see what comes up.
I became interested in shame in medicine through thinking about aesthetic surgery or cosmetic surgery.
what are the goals of this project?
So first we wanted to create a forum where people could share their shame experiences.
So shame really thrives on secrecy.
And one of the things about shame is if you bring it out into the open, it can really diffuse shame.
It can be really cathartic and connecting to share your story.
I've wanted to be a doctor for
Third, we wanted to use shame as a lens through which we could examine medical culture.
So when you focus on shame experiences, what it shows you is the kind of contours of that culture.
So shame tells us when something is acceptable or unacceptable, when something is proper or improper, when something is valued or it's not valued at all.
So using a shame lens can really tell you a lot about a culture, can kind of reveal its boundaries.
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