Register for ‘Vulnerabilised Individuals and Opaque Institutions’ Feb 10 2022

Professor Havi Carel

 

Join us for the Second Annual Joint Center for Knowledge,
Technology and Society Center for Nursing Philosophy lecture,
“Vulnerabilised Individuals and Opaque Institutions”
with University of Bristol Professor Havi Carel.

 

 

About the lecture

“In this talk I develop the concept of vulnerabilisation to pick out a large and diverse group of people who suffer vulnerabilities caused or exacerbated by their situations. I outline how individuals can be made vulnerable by interpersonal encounters and interactions with social structures. I then discuss vulnerabilisation in relation to what I call ‘institutional opacity.’

An opaque institution is especially problematic for individuals and groups already rendered vulnerable during their interactions with that institution, and a prime example are ill persons in the context of healthcare institutions, which I discuss. I articulate the features of an encounter between a vulnerabilised individual and an opaque institution and end by tracing two ameliorative strategies that could help repair this interaction.” — Havi Carel

About Havi Carel

Havi Carel is professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, England. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, the Life of Breath. She was awarded the Health Humanities’ Inspiration Award 2018 for this work.

Her third monograph, Phenomenology of Illness, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She was selected as a Best of Bristol lecturer in 2016.

Havi is the author of Illness (2008, 2013, 2018), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (2006). She is the co-editor of Health, Illness and Disease (2012), New Takes in Film-Philosophy (2010), and of What Philosophy Is (2004).

Event details

Date and time: Feb. 10, 2022 | 10 a.m. Pacific; 1 p.m. Eastern; 5 p.m. UK
Event location: Zoom

Registration

You will receive a link to join the event upon registration.

 

My source: 

University of California, Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing | 252 Berk Hall, Irvine, CA 92697

Previously on W2tQ:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=illness

Links in original source rationalised to reduce any algorithmic penalties.