Professor Havi Carel

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Biography

I am Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, where I also teach medical students. My research examines the experience of illness and of receiving healthcare. I was recently awarded a Senior Investigator Award by the Wellcome Trust, for a five year project entitled ‘Life of Breath’ (with Prof Jane Macnaughton, Durham University).  (www.lifeofbreath.org) 

I recently completed a monograph for Oxford University Press, provisionally entitled Phenomenology of Illness, which will be published in late 2015. I previously published on the embodied experience of illness, wellbeing within illness and patient-clinician communication in the Lancet, BMJ, Journal ...

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Recent publications

• Crichton, P, Carel, H & Kidd, IJ, 2016, ‘Epistemic injustice in psychiatry’. Psychiatric Bulletin.
• Carel, H, Blease, C & Geraghty, K, 2016, ‘Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare Encounters: Evidence from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’. Journal of Medical Ethics.

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