I mainly work on the experience and value of illness and epistemic injustice in illness and healthcare - what my long-time collaborator, Havi Carel, and I call ​pathocentric epistemic injustices.

The experience and value of illness.

• A book on illness and oppression.

• A chapter on everyday aesthetics, wellbeing, and mental health for an edited volume.*

• ‘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.*

• A paper on illness and gaslighting, co-authored with Havi Carel, for an volume on philosophy and gaslighting edited by Kelly O'Brien, in progress.

• 'Expanding Transformative Experience', co-authored with Havi Carel, European Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.
  • ​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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• 'Pathophobia, Illness, and Vices', International Journal of Philosophical Studies 27.2 (2019): 286-306. 

 

• 'Pathophobia as the Social Oppression of Ill Persons', Transculture blog, University of Wolverhampton, 1 April 2019.*

 

• 'Adversity, Wisdom, and Exemplarism', Journal of Value Inquiry, 52.4 (2018): 379–393.

 

• ‘Exemplars, Ethics, and Illness Narratives’, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38.4 (2017): 323-334.

 

• '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).

 

• 'Being Ill, Living Well', Aeon ideas|culture, 8 November 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.

  

Illness, healthcare, and epistemic injustice

• I maintain an online bibliography of work on epistemic injustice, illness, and psychiatry.

 

• ‘Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice’, co-authored with Havi Carel, International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

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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 Psychiatry’, co-authored with Havi Carel and Paul Crichton, British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin 41 (2017): 65-70.
  • Manhog M. Zarroug, Dieneke Hubbeling, Robert Bertram, 'Epistemic Injustice or Safety First?', British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin 41.1 (2017): 56.
  • Sadie Cathcart, 'Psychiatric diagnosis can lead to epistemic injustice, researchers claim', Made in America: Science, Psychiatry, and Social Justice, 3 April 2018. 

 

• ‘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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Lockdown and pandemic

• 'Papers, Please! Vaccine Passports Are Not As Straightforward As You Think', The Critic (online) 21 June 2021.

• ‘Let’s Open Up Debate About Lockdowns’, co-authored by Matthew Ratcliffe, The Critic (online) 19 November 2020.

• ​‘Why it is Right to Question the Orthodox Covid-19 Narrative’, co-authored by Matthew Ratcliffe, The Critic (online) 6 November 2020.

• 'Welcome to Covidworld', co-authored with Matthew Ratcliffe, The Critic, 28 October 2020.​

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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

• ‘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.