#epistemic-injustice

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fromApaonline
1 week ago

The Price of Being Unrecognized: Epistemic Exclusion and the Burden of Speaking as an Azerbaijani Turk Woman in Academia

Yet, even within these critical frameworks, voices from within the Global South, especially women from marginalized communities, are often excluded or misrecognized. Scholars such as Gayatri Spivak, Chandra Mohanty, and Lila Abu-Lughod have long argued that women in the Global South are not merely subjects of oppression but thinkers whose epistemic contributions are routinely devalued. They face layered forms of marginalization within both national contexts and transnational academic spaces, with epistemic injustice emerging as one of the most pervasive mechanisms of exclusion.
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fromAeon
3 months ago

We must stop treating victims of epistemic harm as things | Aeon Essays

Ignoring a patient's knowledge due to prejudice can lead to severe physical, financial, emotional, and epistemic harm.
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fromApaonline
5 months ago

The Nature of Health and Disease in Clinical Settings

The definition of health and disease is complex and involves philosophical perspectives that can influence clinical encounters.
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