Professor Havi Carel

Professor Havi Carel
PhD (Essex), MA (Tel-Aviv), BA (Tel-Aviv)

Professor of Philosophy

Area of research

Philosophy of medicine, phenomenology, film and philosophy, death

Office 0.13
Cotham House,
Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 954 6690
havi.carel@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

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 curerntly hold a Senior Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust, for a five year project entitled ‘Life of Breath’ (with Prof Jane Macnaughton, Durham University). (www.lifeofbreath.org)

My recent monograph Phenomenology of Illness was published by Oxford University Press in autumn 2016. I previously published on the embodied experience of illness, wellbeing within illness and patient-clinician communication in the Lancet, BMJ, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics ...

Recent publications

Biglino, G, Bucciarelli-Ducci, C, Caputo, M, Carel, H, Hurwitz, B, Layton, S, Stretton-Downes, J, Tiwari, N, Wray, J & Vaccarella, M, 2019, ‘Towards a narrative cardiology: Exploring, holding and re-presenting narratives of heart disease’. Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, vol 9., pp. 73-77
Carel, H, Macnaughton, J, Oxley, R, Russell, A, Rose, A & Dodd, J, 2018, ‘Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom’. European Respiratory Journal, vol 51.

School of Arts

Professor Havi Carel