Epistemic Injustice, Medicine, and Gender
Byrne,Eleonor de Boer,Marjolein
Byrne,Eleonor
de Boer,Marjolein
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The history of medicine is permeated with sexist and gender-biased ideas about women and their bodies, which have been and continue to be harmful. Focusing on distinctively epistemic harms, this chapter provides an overview of some existing work in the field of gendered epistemic injustices in the medical context. The chapter takes the reader through extant thinking on testimonial and hermeneutic injustices and acknowledges the value in recognizing structural and intersectional injustices. The chapter engages with some proposed strategies of resistance through patient participation, and it closes with suggestions for some further directions of study in the field. It is suggested that the study of gendered epistemic injustices in medicine may be usefully supplemented by considering how epistemic harms interact with affective harms.
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2025
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Oxford University Press
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Byrne, E & de Boer, M 2025, Epistemic Injustice, Medicine, and Gender. in A Broadbent (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine. Oxford University Press, pp. 351-370. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197625835.013.0015
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