Covid-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK

Examining how shame and stigma became part of the UK’s public health response to COVID-19, this book argues for ＂shame sensitive＂ interventions.

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 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English Studies and Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee (Bloomsbury, 2017).