Professor Havi Carel
PhD (Essex), MA (Tel-Aviv), BA (Tel-Aviv)
Expertise
I study the experience of illness, using phenomenology, a philosophical approach that studies how we encounter the world and other people. I am particularly interested in wellbeing and how health interacts with it.
Current positions
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Becoming Elizabeth Blackwell
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This project will develop a playscript, staged reading and a creative methodology about the life of Bristol-born Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the USA.…Managing organisational unit
School of ArtsDates
01/04/2020 to 31/12/2020
Life of breath: breathing in cultural, clinical and lived experience.
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of PhilosophyDates
01/10/2014 to 31/03/2020
Thesis supervisions
A Phenomenological Approach to Contemporary Politics
Supervisors
Invisible Experiences
Supervisors
Breaking the silence
Supervisors
Sneaking off to Switzerland
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
23/01/2025Silence in illness
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
Illness and Its Experience
Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine
Illness, as a theme in phenomenology
Encyclopedia of Phenomenology
What a mess
Philosophical Psychology
The pandemic body: the lived body during the COVID-19 pandemic
Medical Humanities
Related people
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Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
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Professor of Respiratory Medicine
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Dr David Troy
Senior Research Associate
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Dr Cheryl McQuire
Research Fellow in Public Health Evaluation
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