Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: What would you do if you found out that you had a serious, chronic illness? Would it ...

Havi Carel loves her life and is determined to live every minute to the full. She is just 37 but knows that she may not live to be 45. Two years ago Havi, from Bristol, was told that she has an ...

A new six-year study, which aims to prevent the ‘silencing’ of patient voices and improve patient trust in the healthcare system, is due to begin thanks to a major funding award. Researchers at the ...

Havi Carel: Yes, I think that's a really very pertinent connection you're making, because healthcare is based on trying to treat the biological body. Now, it's not necessarily the final aim but it's ...

Tynan drew on the work of philosopher Havi Carel, who studies the phenomenology (inner, conscious experience) of illness (Carel). In an interpretation of Anne Bragance’s novel, La Reine nue (The Naked ...

A paper by Professor Havi Carel in the Department of Philosophy was recently published in The Lancet, one of the oldest and most prestigious medical journals in the world. ‘Seen but not heard: ...

Philosophy as therapy: it might sound odd, but achieving peace of mind is precisely what the classical philosophers were after. Catch up on what philosophers think and why in What Philosophy Is ...

The Principal Investigator, Professor Havi Carel from the University of Bristol’s Department of Philosophy, is a philosopher of medicine and an expert on the experience of illness. She said: “EPIC is ...