Havi Hannah Carel is a professor of

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

Education and career

Carel studied for a BA and MA at

Tel-Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

and was awarded her PhD by the

University of Essex The University of Essex is a public university, public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the original plate glass university, plate glass universities. Essex's shield consists of the an ...

. She was lecturer at the

University of the West of England The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a public research university, located in and around Bristol, England. The institution was know as the Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; it received university status in 1992 and ...

then moved to the

as a senior lecturer and was later promoted to professor. Carel also teaches at the Bristol Medical School. Her research interests include:

philosophy of medicine The philosophy of medicine is a branch of philosophy that explores issues in theory, research, and practice within the field of health sciences. More specifically in topics of epistemology, metaphysics, and medical ethics, which overlaps with bioet ...

phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...

philosophy of death In ethics and other branches of philosophy, death poses difficult questions, answered differently by various philosophers. Among the many topics explored by the philosophy of death are suicide, capital punishment, abortion, personal identity, immor ...

epistemic injustice Epistemic injustice is injustice related to knowledge. It includes exclusion and silencing; systematic distortion or misrepresentation of one's meanings or contributions; undervaluing of one's status or standing in communicative practices; unfair d ...

and health, illness in children, and film and philosophy. Carel is best-known for her work on the phenomenology of somatic illness, and has led AHRC-funded projects on concepts of health, illness, and disease (2009–11), a

Leverhulme Trust The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to suppo ...

-funded the lived experience of illness (2011–12), a

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

Mid-Career Fellowship (2012–13) and recently completed a five-year

Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glaxo ...

Senior Investigator Award funded project, 'The Life of Breath' She employs film in teaching and has co-edited a volume entitled ''New Takes in Film-Philosophy''. In 2006, Carel was diagnosed with

lymphangioleiomyomatosis Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare, progressive and systemic disease that typically results in cystic lung destruction. It predominantly affects women, especially during childbearing years. The term sporadic LAM is used for patients with LAM ...

, a very rare life-limiting lung disease, and much of her academic work reflects her own lived experiences as an ill person.

Selected writings

Monographs

*''Phenomenology of Illness'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). *''Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger'' (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2014). *''Illness: The Cry of the Flesh'', 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2013). *''Illness: The Cry of the Flesh'', 1st ed. (Durham: Acumen, 2008).

Edited volumes

*''Human Nature and Experience'', co-edited with Darian Meacham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). *''Health, Illness, and Disease: Philosophical Essays'', co-edited with Rachel Cooper (Durham: Acumen, 2012). *''New Takes in Film-Philosophy'', co-edited with Greg Tuck (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).*''What Philosophy Is'', co-edited with David Gamez (London" Continuum, 2004)

Selected journal articles and book chapters

*"Healthcare Practice, Epistemic Injustice, and Naturalism", with Ian James Kidd, in S Barker, C Crerar, and T Goetz (eds.), ''Harms and Wrongs in Epistemic Practice'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). *"Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom", with J. Macnaughton, R Oxley, A Russell, A Rose, J Dodd, ''European Respiratory Journal'', (2018). *"Breathlessness: The rift between objective measurement and subjective experience", ''Lancet Respiratory Medicine'' 6. (2018): 332-333. *"Breathlessness: An invisible symptom", in Lenart Škof and Petri Berndtson (eds.), ''Atmospheres of Breathing: The Respiratory Questions of Philosophy'' (New York: SUNY Press, 2018), 364-382. *"Breathlessness: From bodily symptom to existential experience", with T. Williams, in Kevin Aho (eds) ''Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness'' (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). *"Review of The Distressed Body by Drew Leder", ''The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy'' 43 (2018): 361-367, *"Stigma, technology and masking: Hearing aids and ambulatory oxygen", with C. McGuire in David Wasserman and Adam Cureton (eds.) ''Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Disability'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). *"Even Ethics Professors fail to return library books", ''Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology'' 24 (2018): 211-213. *"Virtue in deficit: the 9-year-old hero", ''Lancet'' 389 (2017: 1094-1095. *"Epistemic Injustice and Illness", with Ian James Kidd, ''Journal of Applied Philosophy'', 34 (2017): 172-190. *"Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare Encounters: Evidence from Chronic Fatigue Syndome", with C. Blease and K. Geraghty, ''Journal of Medical Ethics'', 43 (2017): 549-557. *"Virtue without Excellence, Excellence without Health", ''Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume'', 90 (2016): 237-253. *""If I Had to Live Like You, I Think I'd Kill Myself": Social Dimensions of the Experience of Illness", in D. Moran and T. Szanto (eds.), ''Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the "We"'' (London: Routledge, 2016), 173-186. *"Invisible Suffering: Breathlessness in and Beyond the Clinic", with J. Macnaughton and J. Dodd, ''Lancet Respiratory Medicine'', 3 (2015): 278-279. *"Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare: A Philosophical Analysis", with Ian James Kidd, ''Medicine, Healthcare, and Philosophy'', 17 (2014): 529-540. *"Seen But Not Heard: Children and Epistemic Injustice", with G. Gyorffy, ''Lancet'', 384 (2014): 1256-1257. *"Bodily Doubt", ''Journal of Consciousness Studies'', 20 (2013): 178-197.

References

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