Havi Carel


Havi Carel is a professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol.

Education and career

Carel studied for a BA and MA at Tel-Aviv University and was awarded her PhD by the University of Essex. She was lecturer at the University of the West of England then moved to the University of Bristol as a senior lecturer and later promoted to professor.
Her research interests include philosophy of medicine, phenomenology, philosophy of death, epistemic injustice and health, illness, and children, and film and philosophy. Carel is best-known for her work on the phenomenology of somatic illness, and has led AHRC-funded project on concepts of health, illness, and disease, a Leverhulme Trust-funded the lived experience of illness, a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and currently has a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award funded project, 'The Life of Breath'
In 2006, Carel was diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a life-limiting lung disease, and much of her academic work reflects her own lived experiences as an ill person.

Selected writings

Monographs