Sheilah Miller, a 39-year-old Black woman, experienced medical malpractice during childbirth, suffering a stroke due to her physician's disregard for her pain complaints. This neglect resulted in her paralysis, financial burdens, and potential emotional issues. The concept of epistemic harm is significant here, as it reflects the violation of a person's inherent dignity and knowledge-sharing capacity. When individuals are denied the right to convey their experiences or knowledge, they face not only physical and financial repercussions but also deep emotional harms, underlining the importance of recognizing epistemic injustice in medical contexts.
Epistemic harm prevents, denies, and rejects the ability to give and receive knowledge, leading to humiliation and degradation as a human being.
Knowledge is essential to being human. When a person's ability to share their knowledge is ignored, their dignity is also denied.
Ms. Miller suffered from medical malpractice not only in terms of physical harm and financial burden but also through significant epistemic harm.
Denying someone the right to convey their knowledge can lead to profound emotional adversities such as anxiety or depression.
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