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Adaptation and illness severity: the significance of suffering
Adaptation to illness, and its relevance for distribution in health care, has been the subject of vigorous debate. In this paper I examine an aspect...
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Unbalanced: Mental Illness, MAID and Medico-legal Principles
On March 17, 2021 the Parliament of Canada passed Bill C-7Bill C-7, an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada, expanding access to medical...
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Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations
Phenomenology of illness has grown increasingly popular in recent times. However, the most prominent phenomenologists of illness defend a...
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Views on sharing mental health data for research purposes: qualitative analysis of interviews with people with mental illness
BackgroundImproving the ways in which routinely-collected mental health data are shared could facilitate substantial advances in research and...
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MAID for Mental Illness: What Exactly is Being Consented To?
The Canadian MAID framework for mental illness will permit suicide facilitation under the guise of medical practice. MAID for mental illness is being...
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Anticipating and enacting worlds: moods, illness and psychobehavioral adaptation
Predictive processing theorists have claimed PTSD and depression are maladaptive and epistemically distorting because they entail undesirably wide...
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Clinical Ethics Consultation in Chronic Illness: Challenging Epistemic Injustice Through Epistemic Modesty
Leading paradigms of clinical ethics consultation closely follow a biomedical model of care. In this paper, we present a theoretical reflection on...
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Mobile homes in the land of illness: the hospitality and hostility of language in doctor-patient relations
Illness has a way of disorientating us, as if we are cast adrift in a foreign land. Like strangers in a dessert we seek oasis to recollect ourselves,...
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Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised
This paper attempts to philosophically articulate empirical evidence on the positive effects of illness within the wider context of a discussion of...
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Illness as Unhomelike Being-in-the-World
We will now return to the phenomenology of health and illness. Heidegger never wrote anything substantial about the subject. There is no analysis of...
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Mental Illness
The concept of mental illness like that of mental health is contested in the ongoing philosophical debate about the mind and mental states and raises...
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Why Does Mental Illness Exist? Reflections on Human Vulnerability
This chapter investigates more fundamentally the conditions of possibility for humans to become mentally ill in the first place. The fact that...
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Well-Being, Mental Illness, Co-Production and Social Prescription: Social Constructionism, Relational Integrity, and Agency
As with Chap. 6 , this chapter starts with sociability as one of the six ontological features of the human...
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MAID for Persons with Mental Illness as a Sole Eligibility Criterion
The practice of EuthanasiaEuthanasia and Assisted SuicideSuicide (EAS), referred to in CanadaCanada as “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID), evolved...
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Responsibility, Care and Illness in Family Relationships
Family as a relationship of cooperation and solidarity refers to responsibility and education between generations. Often, the intermingling of mutual...
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Illness Narratives and Epistemic Injustice: Toward Extended Empathic Knowledge
Socially extended knowledge has recently received much attention in mainstream epistemology. Knowledge here is not to be understood as wholly...
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Experiences in Times of Illness: Report from the Qualitative Interview Study
How did the families we interviewed after a bone marrow transplant experience the illness for which the donation from a sibling child was a cure?...
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Health and Illness as Enacted Phenomena
In this paper I explore health and illness through the lens of enactivism, which is understood and developed as a bodily-based worldly-engaged...
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Mental Illness, Lack of Autonomy, and Physician-Assisted Death
In this chapter, I consider the idea that physician-assisted death might come into question in the cases of psychiatric patients who are incapable of...
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Illness and Family Decision-Making
This chapter discusses how philosophy can help us understand family responses and decision-making when one child serves as a donor of bodily tissue...