Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Barbara C. Schouten, Myrte Westerneng, Anne-Marike Smit
Summary: This study identified the most influential barriers that midwives perceive in communicating about depression-related symptoms with ethnic minority clients. The results showed that educational-related barriers and client-related barriers were the most significant obstacles, indicating a need for culturally sensitive screening tools and patient education materials to improve communication about depression.
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Celestin Okoroji, Tanya Mackay, Dan Robotham, Davino Beckford, Vanessa Pinfold
Summary: Epistemic injustice refers to the denial of knowledge creation and meaning derivation opportunities for marginalized groups, particularly impacting racialized communities in mental health research and service delivery systems. Lived experience involvement and leadership are suggested for combating epistemic injustice, but challenges such as elite capture and epistemic exploitation exist. This paper proposes a pragmatic approach to address these issues and suggests three considerations: reflecting on purpose and impact, embedding lived experience roles with appropriate support and remuneration, and working alongside existing systems while developing new spaces for alternative knowledge.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Clinical
Brent M. Kious, Benjamin R. Lewis, Scott Y. H. Kim
Summary: Psychiatrists are obligated to trust their patients but there are concerns that they perpetrate epistemic injustice. While there is a risk of injustice, most concerns regarding psychiatry being epistemically unjust are unfounded. Psychiatrists should resist calls for changes to clinical practice based on this criticism.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Dangui Zhang, Zichun Jiang, Yu Xie, Weiming Wu, Yixuan Zhao, Anqi Huang, Tumei Li, William Ba-Thein
Summary: This study investigates the linguistic barriers imposed by Mandarin and Chaoshan dialects in healthcare in the Chaoshan region of China. The results show significant communication difficulties for monolingual healthcare providers and consumers, with negative impacts on the healthcare delivery process. Interventions such as professional interpreter service or mobile interpreting apps are suggested to address the challenges posed by dialectal diversity in China.
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
John Symons, Ramon Alvarado
Summary: Technologies that utilize data science methods can cause epistemic harms which can be unjust. It is important to recognize and address these harms. Through examples from the criminal justice system, workplace hierarchies, and educational contexts, we explain the types of epistemic injustices that can result from common uses of data science technologies.
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Gianfranco Casuso
Summary: This article discusses the relevance of Marxian concepts of alienation, ideology, and proletariat in understanding current forms of epistemic injustice, and how they can illuminate aspects of these concepts. By exploring Marx's ideas on alienation and emancipation, as well as the concept of proletariat, it demonstrates the importance of these categories in addressing contemporary social issues and struggles for liberation.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Nicholas D. C. Allen
Summary: This article analyzes the unjust misappropriation of marginalized groups' terms online, using the example of the misappropriation of 'woke' from the Black community on Twitter. The author argues that such misappropriation distorts the meaning of the terms and hampers the expression of marginalized agents, both within and outside their community. The author also proposes the term 'Context-Collapsed Contributory Injustice' (CC.CI) to describe this phenomenon.
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Sergei Monakhov
Summary: State-sponsored internet trolls repeat limited messages with ever-changing filler words to avoid detection, but their troll-like effect is reduced as the time distance between elements increases, as shown in both observational and experimental samples.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Roisin Mooney, Clair Dempsey, Brian J. Brown, Frank Keating, Doreen Joseph, Kamaldeep Bhui
Summary: This paper presents a model of research practice that focuses on addressing epistemic injustice and promotes the importance of lived experience and structural disadvantages. The authors share their processes and the experiences of participants in a study called Co-pact, aiming to transform research practice. Rather than discussing specific research findings, the paper aims to provide expertise on addressing epistemic injustice and offers practical examples of participatory research processes, core values, and procedures implemented.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Lauren Gerchow, Larissa R. Burka, Sarah Miner, Allison Squires
Summary: Global migration and linguistic diversity have led to increased healthcare language barriers, affecting patient outcomes. This review of 48 studies from 16 countries found that nurses faced similar challenges and applied similar strategies in managing language barriers, with common themes including interpreter use, quality care barriers, cultural competence, and interventions. Future research should focus on addressing gaps identified in this study to better support nurses, while policymakers have opportunities to enact policies to improve bilingual proficiency and interpreter use.
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2021)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Amandine Catala, Luc Faucher, Pierre Poirier
Summary: The contrast between third- and first-personal accounts of the experiences of autistic individuals sheds light on epistemic injustice and agency. Developing a relational account of epistemic agency is crucial for promoting greater epistemic justice for autistic individuals. Recognizing the various types of epistemic injustices faced by autistic individuals can lead to a better understanding of how epistemic disablement and enablement impact their agency.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Ginny Russell, Sam Wilkinson
Summary: This article explores the theoretical thinking behind PPI and inclusion, and input from people with neurodiverse conditions. It discusses how the prefix "Neuro" is positioned in a neutral and authoritative way and examines the potential for epistemic injustice to arise. The article shows how neurodiverse individuals often positively perceive mainstream neuro narratives, leading to the breakdown of the oppressor/oppressed divide and mutual influence between neuroscientists and individuals with neurodiverse conditions.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lee A. Spitzley, Xinran Wang, Xunyu Chen, Judee K. Burgoon, Norah E. Dunbar, Saiying Ge
Summary: This study explored the relationships between multiple dimensions of personality and multiple features of language style, finding greater heterogeneity in language style in interactive contexts and extraverts maintaining greater linguistic style consistency during interactions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Development Studies
Sarah Cummings, Charles Dhewa, Gladys Kemboi, Stacey Young
Summary: Originally proposed by philosopher Miranda Fricker, epistemic injustice refers to the unfair treatment of individuals and groups in knowledge-related and communicative practices, and is increasingly used to highlight individual and collective injustices in healthcare, information science, education, and sustainable development. Epistemic injustice is intertwined with other forms of social injustice and inequality, posing a significant challenge to sustainable development by undermining the global community's ability to address complex problems. This article builds upon the existing philosophical framework of epistemic injustice and integrates recent research from various fields to develop an action-oriented framework of epistemic justice, emphasizing fair treatment in knowledge-related and communicative practices. The article also expands the current understanding of individual and collective injustice by exploring structural and systemic forms of epistemic injustice, including linguistic injustice and epistemicide.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Agnieszka Pawelczyk, Emila Lojek, Maciej Radek, Tomasz Pawelczyk
Summary: The study found that patients with schizophrenia have difficulties in understanding emotional and linguistic prosody in meaningless utterances, particularly in distinguishing between happiness and anger. These cognitive impairments may affect their ability to form and sustain relationships with others, achieve success in the work environment, and integrate into the community.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2021)