How Disbelief Hurts Women: Hermeneutical Injustice in Healthcare

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Published 2022-01-05
A short introduction to the various ways in which hermeneutical injustice and by extension testimonial injustice towards female patients lowers the standard of care. These instances of ethical and circumstantial wrongdoing will be explored with real world examples based on peer reviewed research focused on hermeneutical injustice from a primarily philosophical standpoint.

References:
Beach, Mary Catherine, et al. “Testimonial Injustice: Linguistic Bias in the Medical Records of Black Patients and Women.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 36, no. 6 (2021): 1708–14. doi.org/10.1007/s11606-021-06682-z.

Calderone, Karen L. “The Influence of Gender on the Frequency of Pain and Sedative Medication Administered to Postoperative Patients.” Sex Roles 23, no. 11-12 (1990): 713–25. doi.org/10.1007/bf00289259.

Chen, Esther H., et al. “Gender Disparity in Analgesic Treatment of Emergency Department Patients with Acute Abdominal Pain.” Academic Emergency Medicine 15, no. 5 (2008): 414–18. doi.org/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00100.x.

Cohen Shabot, Sara. “‘You Are Not Qualified—Leave It to Us’: Obstetric Violence as Testimonial Injustice.” Human Studies 44, no. 4 (2021): 635–53. doi.org/10.1007/s10746-021-09596-1.

Tosas, Mar Rosàs. “The Downgrading of Pain Sufferers’ Credibility.” Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 16, no. 1 (2021). doi.org/10.1186/s13010-021-00105-x.

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