The International Philosophy of Medicine Reading Group is now well into its third season. The group is truly international and interdisciplinary (yes, there are medical doctors and philosophers!), with participants from different research backgrounds and at different career stages. Like last Spring, we are not working through a single monograph, but reading and discussing a variety of recent papers.

You can choose to join either the Wednesday meeting, 5pm UK time, or the Thursday meeting, 10.05am UK time, depending on what works best for you and your time zone. Feel free to drop into the sessions whenever you can — there is no commitment to attend the whole series.

Here’s the calendar.

• Week 1 Weds 22 Oct, Thurs 23 Oct
  Maung, H. H. (2025). The Disunity of Disease. Philosophy of Medicine, 6(1).
• Week 2 Weds 29 Oct, Thurs 30 Oct
  Larcher, Vic. (2025) Children are not small adults: Significance of biological and cognitive development in medical practice. Handbook of the philosophy of medicine. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2025. 435-457.
• Week 3 Weds 5 Nov, Thurs 6 Nov
  Hucklenbroich, Peter (2025) Medical theory and its notions of definition and explanation. Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2025. 1041-1049.
• Week 4 Weds 12 Nov, Thurs 13 Nov
  Wiggleton-Little J. (2025) Pain Dismissal and the Limits of Epistemic Injustice. Hypatia. Published online 2025:1-17.
• Week 5 Weds 19 Nov, Thurs 20 Nov
  De Marco, Gabriel, et al. “What makes a medical intervention invasive?.” Journal of medical ethics 50.4 (2024): 226-233.
• Week 6 Weds 26 Nov, Thurs 27 Nov
  Brock, Dan, ‘Quality of Life Measures in Health Care and Medical Ethics’, in Martha Nussbaum, and Amartya Sen (eds), The Quality of Life (Oxford, 1993; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Nov. 2003)
• Week 7 Weds 3 Dec, Thurs 4 Dec
• Al-Juhany, A. (2025). Why We Should Not Characterize Aging as a Disease. Philosophy of Medicine, 6(1). 
• Week 8 Weds 10 Dec , Thurs 11 Dec
• Glackin, S. (2025). Externalist Medicine and Externalist Biology. Philosophy of Medicine, 6(1).

We meet on Teams. If you would like to receive weekly reminders, email Sarah Wietens and join the Google group (if you haven’t already).