Abigail Gosselin

Abigail Gosselin is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of Mental Patient: Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient’s Perspective (MIT Press, 2022), Humanizing Mental Illness: Enhancing Agency through Social Interaction (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), and Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility (Lexington 2009), as well as numerous papers in social philosophy. Recent publications include papers on mental illness stigma, implicit bias, injustices in the medicalization of mental disorders, the ethics of philosophizing from first-person experience, the difficulty of people with severe mental illness finding and keeping jobs, and poverty and human rights; she has been published in journals including Hypatia, The Journal of Social Philosophy, Social Philosophy Today, and International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.