Her research interests include: philosophy of medicine, phenomenology, philosophy of death, epistemic injustice and health, illness in children, and film and philosophy.[2] 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-funded the lived experience of illness (2011–12), a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2012–13)[3] and recently completed a five-year Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award funded project, 'The Life of Breath'[2][4] She employs film in teaching and has co-edited a volume entitled New Takes in Film-Philosophy.[5]
In 2006, Carel was diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a very rare life-limiting lung disease, and much of her academic work reflects her own lived experiences as an ill person.[6]
Selected writings
Monographs
Phenomenology of Illness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).[7]
Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2014).[8]
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).[9]
Health, Illness, and Disease: Philosophical Essays, co-edited with Rachel Cooper (Durham: Acumen, 2012).[10]
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).[11]
"Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom", with J. Macnaughton, R Oxley, A Russell, A Rose, J Dodd, European Respiratory Journal, (2018).[12]
"Breathlessness: The rift between objective measurement and subjective experience", Lancet Respiratory Medicine 6. (2018): 332-333.[13]
"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.[14]
"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).[15]
"Review of The Distressed Body by Drew Leder", The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 43 (2018): 361-367,[16]
"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).[17]
"Virtue in deficit: the 9-year-old hero", Lancet 389 (2017: 1094-1095.[19]
"Epistemic Injustice and Illness", with Ian James Kidd, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 34 (2017): 172-190.[20]
"Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare Encounters: Evidence from Chronic Fatigue Syndome", with C. Blease and K. Geraghty, Journal of Medical Ethics, 43 (2017): 549-557.[21]
"Virtue without Excellence, Excellence without Health", Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 90 (2016): 237-253.[22]
""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.[23]
"Seen But Not Heard: Children and Epistemic Injustice", with G. Gyorffy, Lancet, 384 (2014): 1256-1257.[24]
"Bodily Doubt", Journal of Consciousness Studies, 20 (2013): 178-197.[25]
^Carel, Havi (9 May 2018). "The Distressed Body". The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. 43 (3): 361–367. doi:10.1093/jmp/jhy004.