“Embodied Ambiguity: Towards a Critical Phenomenology of Illness”

Sarah McLay, PhD candidate, Philosophy and 2022–23 OHC Dissertation Fellow.

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My dissertation, exploring the relationship between bodies, values, and society, offers a philosophical framework for making sense of the lived experience of illness. Working at the intersections of phenomenology and critical disability studies, I develop a critical phenomenology of illness; that is, a non-normate or crip analysis of ill bodies that moves beyond ableist frameworks of illness, health, healing, and life.