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The conservative Catholic moral code that underpinned adoption in Ireland penalised vulnerable women and their children. Now a proposed new law seeks to redress the impact of this legacy of shame.
When people who test positive to COVID-19 become subject to ridicule for their activities, it could make others feel reluctant to get tested, or reveal their movements to contact tracers.
Nigerian women have successfully used their naked bodies as an instrument of power, rather than shame, to protest injustice.
The US has a long history of forced sterilization campaigns that were driven by the bogus ‘science’ of eugenics, racism and sexism.
The U.S. suicide rate has been increasing for decades. According to a sociologist who studies suicide, depression is just one factor among many implicated social conditions.
Experts recommend adopted children be told about their origins, no matter how difficult the circumstances, but doing so is tricky for adoptive parents.
Faced with uncertain and anxious times, brains send out instructions to start stockpiling supplies – whether you’re a person facing a pandemic, or a rodent prepping for a long winter.
Many unwed Irish mothers-to-be travelled to America in the 19th century hoping for a new start
As National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is observed Feb. 24-March 1, here are some things to consider.
We feel less shame in our personal lives than ever, which is a good thing. But we do still need our leaders to be bound by it.
The British Psychological Society is calling for a language change, from ‘obese people’ to ‘people living with obesity’. But using the word obesity can reinforce rather than prevent stigma.
… in fact, it can make you sick.
It seems likely that the disciplinary findings and criminal convictions that come to media attention are only the tip of the iceberg of doctor-patient sexual contact.
The US election has exposed deep divisions between older and younger feminists. Women have shamed Hillary Clinton as every kind of bad feminist.
An environment rife with shame is a fertile breeding ground for conflict: pitting mother against mother.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Development, Massey University
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Health Law and Policy, University of Auckland
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Associate professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Irish Social History, Queen's University Belfast
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Psychologist and Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of American Culture, History, and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
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Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Psychology, Dickinson College
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Associate Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University
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Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish Social History, Ulster University
