I mainly work on epistemic injustice in illness and healthcare - what my long-time collaborator, Havi Carel, and I call ​pathocentric epistemic injustices - which is the basis of our upcoming Wellcome-funded project, EPIC. I also work on the experience and value of experiences of illness, the phenomenology of illness, and have also written about lockdowns and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Illness, healthcare, and epistemic injustice
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  • A paper on depression and hermeneutical injustice, in draft.
 
  • A paper on epistemic injustice and global health, in draft.
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  • 'Epistemic Injustice in the Medical Context', co-authored with Lucienne Spencer and Eleanor Byrne, in Thomas Schramme and Mary Jean Walker (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine (Dordrecht: Springer, 2025/26), forthcoming.*
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  • ‘Religion, Psychiatry, and “Radical” Epistemic Injustice’, co-authored with Rosa Ritunnano, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 31.3 (2024): 235-238. (Special issue: Religious Experience and Psychpatlogy, edited by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed).*
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  • ‘Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice’, co-authored with Havi Carel, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29.4 (2022): 473-496.
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  • 'Pathocentric Epistemic Injustice and Conceptions of Health', co-authored with Havi Carel, in Ben Sherman and Stacey Goguin (eds.), Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives (New York: Rowman and Littlefield), 153-168.* 
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  • 'Healthcare Practice, Epistemic Injustice, and Naturalism', co-authored with Havi Carel, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 84 (2018): 1-23.*
 
  • ‘Epistemic Injustice in Medicine and Healthcare’, co-authored with Havi Carel, The Routledge Handbook to Epistemic Injustice, Ian James Kidd, José Medina, and Gaile Pohlhaus (London: Routledge: 2017), 336-346.
   
  • ‘Epistemic Injustice and Illness’, co-authored with Havi Carel, Journal of Applied Philosophy 33(2) (2017): 172-190. 
    • Special issue: Applied Epistemology, ed. David Coady and Miranda Fricker.
 
  • 'Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare: A Philosophical Analysis', co-authored with Havi Carel, Medicine, Healthcare, and Philosophy 17.4 (2014): 529-540.
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The philosophy of illness.
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  • A paper on silence and the phenomenology of grief, in draft.
 
  • A paper on 'bright-siding' and metaphors in illness narratives, in draft.
 
  • A paper on truthfulness and experiences of illness, in draft.
 
  • ‘Silence in Illness’, co-authored with Dan Degerman and Havi Carel, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, forthcoming 2025.
     
  • ‘From Predicaments to Pathophobia: Non-ideal Theory Approaches to Philosophy of Illness’, co-authored with Havi Carel, in Hilkje Charlotte Hänel and Johanna Müller (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory (New York: Routledge, 2025), 352-366).*​
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  • ’The hermeneutic problem of psychiatry’ and the co-production of meaning in psychiatric healthcare’, co-auhtored with Lucienne Spencer, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 94 (2023): 103-131.
    • Special issue on Lived Experience and Co-production in Philosophy and Mental Health, edited by Anna Bergqvist, David Crepaz-Keay and Alana Wilde.
 
  • 'Everyday Aesthetics, Happiness, and Depression', Martin Poltrum, Michael Musalek, Helena Fox, Kathleen Galvin, Yuriko Saito (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), forthcoming.
 
  • ‘The Predicament of Patients’, co-authored with Havi Carel, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 89 (2021): 65-84.
 
  • ‘Phenomenology, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Religious Commitment’, Alasdair Coles (ed.), Neurology and Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 35-47.
 
  • 'Expanding Transformative Experience', co-authored with Havi Carel, European Journal of Philosophy 28.1: 199-213.
    • ​We focus on chronic illnesses and other forms of embodied suffering as types of unelected transformative experience.
 
  • 'Suffering and Transformative Experience', co-authored with Havi Carel, for David Bain, Michael Brady, and Jennifer Corns (eds.), The Philosophy of Suffering (London: Routledge), 165-179.*
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  • 'Phenomenology of Illness, Philosophy, and Life', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science 62 (2017): 56-60.*
    • Essay review of Havi Carel, Phenomenology of Illness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
   
  • ‘Illness as Transformative Experience’, co-authored with Havi Carel and Richard Pettigrew, The Lancet, 388 (2016): 1152-1153.
 
  • 'Transformative Suffering and the Cultivation of Virtue’, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 22.4 (2015): 291-294.
    • Anastasia Philippa Scrutton, ‘Interpretation, Meaning, and the Shaping of Experience’, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 22.4 (2015): 299-30
 
  • 'Can Illness Be Edifying?', Inquiry 55.5 (2012): 496-520.
 
  • 'Can Illness Make Me A Better Person?', Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities blog, February 2012.
  

Lockdown and pandemic

  • A paper on epistemic failings and the harms of lockdowns, in draft.
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  • 'Pandemic, Pessimism, and Misanthropy', American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 20.1 (2020): 34-36.​
    • Fall 2020 special issue on Feminist Responses to Pandemics and Covid-19.
 
  • ‘Pandemic Transformative Experiences’, co-authored with Havi Carel, The Philosophers’ Magazine 90 (2020): 24-31.​​​


Medical epistemology and other
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  • A paper on moral injury and distress in nursing.
   
  • ‘A Pluralist Challenge to ‘Integrative Medicine’: Feyerabend and Popper on the Cognitive Value of Alternative Medicine’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science 44.3 (2013): 392–400.
 
  • 'Biopiracy and the Protection of Medical Heritage: The Case of India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library', Journal of Medical Humanities 33 (2012): 175-183.