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.
Illness, healthcare, and epistemic injustice
The philosophy of illness.
Lockdown and pandemic
Medical epistemology and other
Illness, healthcare, and epistemic injustice
- A paper on depression and hermeneutical injustice.
- ‘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).*
- 'Epistemic Injustice: Caution and Complexity', EPIC blog, 17 January 2025.
- ‘Correspondence: Epistemic Injustice Should Matter to Psychiatrists’, co-authored with Lucienne Spencer and Eleanor Harris, Philosophy of Medicine 4(1). https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2023.159.
- ‘Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatric Research and Practice’, co-authored with Lucienne Spencer and Havi Carel, Philosophical Psychology, forthcoming, DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2156333.
- ‘Hermeneutical Injustice and the Depths of Depression’, Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology, 6 October 2022.*
- ‘Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice’, co-authored with Havi Carel, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29.4 (2022): 473-496.
- '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.*
- '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.
The philosophy of illness.
- A paper on silence and the phenomenology of grief.
- A paper on 'bright-siding' and metaphors in illness narratives.
- A paper on truthfulness and experiences of illness.
- 'Individual Vices and Institutional Failings as Drivers of Vulnerabilisation', co-authored with Havi Carel, Social Epistemology, forthcoming.*
- Special issue on Epistemic Injustice in the Medical Context, edited by Rena Goldstein.
- ‘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), in press.*
- ’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.*
- '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.
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.
- '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
- A paper on moral injury and distress in nursing.
- 'Black women are at greater risk of maternal death in the UK - here's what needs to be done', The Conversation 1 June 2023.
- ‘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.