Important topics:

  • Health and Well-being
  • Pain and Suffering
  • Mindfullness
  • Communication between professionals, patients and their families
  • Caring institutions
  • Health Equity
  • Moral understandings in care practices
  • Cultural diversity
  • Epistemic justice
  • Meaning of living with an illness or disability
  • Humanization
  • Caring epistemologies
  • End of Life Care
  • Shared Decision Making
  • Care responsibilities

Our interdisciplinary approach draws upon these fields:

  • Care Ethics and Biomedical Ethics
  • Narrative Medicine
  • Literary Sciences
  • Existential Medicine
  • Arts-Based Health Research
  • Care Theory/Political Theory
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Medical Sociology
  • Intersectionality research
  • Qualitative Research for Equity, Social Justice and Care
  • Phenomenology
  • Responsive Evaluation
  • Poetic Inquiry
  • Palliative Care
  • Gender Studies
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