About the Care Lab

A philosophical research lab, the Care Lab is a cross-campus collaboration at Stony Brook University moored in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics in the Renaissance School of Medicine. The Lab annually hosts visiting philosophers and runs a student-centered think tank for mentored research on care.

History of the Care Lab

Feminist philosopher Asha L. Bhandary, Founding Director, created the Care Lab at the University of Iowa (Iowa Care Lab) from 2025-2026 and brought it to Stony Brook University in 2026. It integrates feminist philosophies of care into medical understandings and research while enriching philosophical understandings of care, embodiment, and relationality with recent scientific findings into the effects of stress, reproductive inequalities, and population health disparities, thereby fostering research collaborations at the frontier of care theory.