School of Education and Social Work, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski", Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Sociol Health Illn. 2023 Jul;45(6):1146-1163. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13479. Epub 2022 May 11.
This paper explores the potential of the perspective of epistemic injustice to reconcile medical sociology's attention to the micro level of experience and interpersonal exchange, and disability studies' focus on the macro level of oppressive structures. The first part of the paper provides an overview of the concept of epistemic injustice and its key instances-testimonial, hermeneutical, and contributory injustice. We also consider previous applications of the concept in the fields of health care and disability, and we contextualise our investigation by discussing key features of postsocialism from the perspective of epistemic injustice. In the second part, we explore specific epistemic injustices experienced by people who use disability support by drawing on interviews and focus groups conducted with parents of disabled children in present-day Bulgaria. In our conclusion, we revisit our methodological and theoretical points about the potential of epistemic injustice to facilitate mutually beneficial exchanges between medical sociology and disability studies.
本文探讨了认识论不公正视角的潜力，以调和医学社会学对微观经验和人际交流的关注，以及残疾研究对压迫性结构的宏观关注。本文的第一部分概述了认识论不公正的概念及其关键实例——证词、解释和贡献不公正。我们还考虑了该概念在医疗保健和残疾领域的先前应用，并通过从认识论不公正的角度讨论后社会主义的关键特征，将我们的调查置于背景之中。在第二部分，我们通过借鉴对当今保加利亚残疾儿童父母进行的访谈和焦点小组，探讨了使用残疾支持的人所经历的特定认识论不公正。在结论中，我们重新审视了我们关于认识论不公正促进医学社会学和残疾研究之间互利交流的方法和理论要点。
