Wellcome Trust’s Post

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Maybe we can���t cure people or entirely remove symptoms, but we do have the ability to give people the sense that they're being�� listened to and that their opinions and needs are being taken seriously. I'm Havi Carel, I'm the principal investigator�� on a discovery award called���� EPIC which is epistemic injustice in healthcare. Epistemic injustice it's a philosophical concept�� developed in order to capture the way in which we can be discriminated against when our credibility is�� unfairly reduced when we speak. Because you are from this ethnic group, or because you are a woman, or because�� of how you dress or because of your socioeconomic status. So it's an injustice done to somebody in their�� capacity as a speaker, as a knower. And of course, It's particularly significant�� within healthcare because these contributions from patients are sometimes overlooked or ignored or not acted upon. And this, of course, could have dire consequences for the quality of�� the clinical care that they receive. The EPIC team includes researchers from�� philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, law, history, and qualitative health research. The project aims to identify, describe,�� document, analyse and ultimately ameliorate the phenomenon of epistemic�� injustice in healthcare. So EPIC will address four�� existing problems in the field. The first is it's conceptually under�� described and what EPIC will do is fill���� theoretical gaps in our understanding�� of epistemic injustice in healthcare. Second, it's empirically untested, and this�� will be the first large scale project to use six case studies to describe and understand and���� document epistemic injustice�� in real healthcare domains. The third is that EPIC will develop some amelioration and�� ways to address and reduce the���� risk of epistemic injustice in healthcare. And finally, EPIC will try and bring the concept of epistemic injustice into�� contact with the broader healthcare discourse. For me, the most important outcome of the project�� would be to develop concrete and applicable tools���� for both health professionals and patients to�� reduce epistemic injustice within healthcare.