Lara Calabrese
Lara Calabrese
Lara Calabrese
14th - 16th April 2026
"The Right To Be Heard: Exploring Epistemic Injustice In Dementia Care. A Qualitative Study"
Poster Presentation, 37th Global Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International
Havi Carel
Lara Calabrese
Lara Calabrese
7th May 2026
3pm - 4:30pm
Radical Bodily Doubt
What sort of possibilities are opened and closed when we experience radical bodily change? This will be the topic of this talk. I will begin by outlining my original conception of Bodily doubt (Carel 2013), which is a breakdown of the tacit bodily trust that underpins our everyday activities an
7th May 2026
3pm - 4:30pm
Radical Bodily Doubt
What sort of possibilities are opened and closed when we experience radical bodily change? This will be the topic of this talk. I will begin by outlining my original conception of Bodily doubt (Carel 2013), which is a breakdown of the tacit bodily trust that underpins our everyday activities and commerce with the world. Bodily doubt has three features: loss of continuity, loss of transparency, and loss of faith in one’s body.
This, I suggest, needs to be complimented by a further notion of radical bodily doubt, which is experienced in extreme situations, for example, in intensive care when one is very ill, at the end of life, after major life changing surgery and in other liminal situations. In the talk, I will characterise the features of radical bodily doubt. They are: a complete breakdown of continuity, the replacing of transparency with complete occlusion, and a certainty of bodily failure (negation) that replaces the loss of faith of bodily doubt.
