This knowledge can be useful in everything from individual patient meetings to major societal decisions. Professor Kristin Zeiler is director of the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics (CMHB) at LiU. Here, researchers examine different experiences of health and disease, how medical diagnoses affect us, healthcare assessment and treatment of patients, etc.
Kristin Zeiler also leads a large interdisciplinary project on post-COVID syndrome:
“This requires radical interdisciplinary research, combining theories and methods from research fields that are usually far apart. An empirical philosophical analysis can show how extreme fatigue in post-COVID syndrome profoundly changes the patient’s experience of themselves, their environment and their scope for action. We combine this kind of investigation with biomedical perspectives such as neuroradiology, which examines the human brain in a measurable way. My hope is that we will understand post-COVID better and that this can improve patient assessment and treatment.”
The health impact of the global climate crisis – in the form of intense heat waves, rising sea levels that destroy people’s homes and increased spread of insect-borne diseases – is another challenge that requires broad understanding and interdisciplinary collaboration.
“We are constantly working to strengthen and further develop interdisciplinary collaborations that enable us to meet health challenges, both now and in the future,” says Kristin Zeiler.
