London Lectures

'It’s Hard To Think Without Your Pants On’: Patients As Knowers

In this talk Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, will examine how patient accounts are discounted, ignored, or otherwise deemed uncredible.

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In this talk Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, will examine how patient accounts are discounted, ignored, marginalised or otherwise deemed uncredible. Using Miranda Fricker’s concept of epistemic injustice, she will characterise this problem as endemic to modern healthcare structures, ending by offering ameliorative strategies.

  • Speaker

    Havi Carel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol and the author of Phenomenology of Illness (2016), Illness (2008, 2013, 2018 shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize), and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (2006).