ArticleSocial epistemology2024
Individual vices and institutional failings as drivers of vulnerabilisation.
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- A reply to "Fundamental issues in epistemic injustice in healthcare" by Nielsen, Nordgaard & Henriksen (2025) : Corresponding author.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2026Article
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- It's you it's about! Exploring existential aspects on quality of life with myasthenia gravis.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2026Article
- Understanding symptoms in the lives of adult patients with acute or chronic illness: a phenomenological study of patient experiences.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Meaningful public involvement: changing research institutions toward epistemic justice.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
This paper explores the phenomenon of vulnerabilisation in relation to the experiences of persons with chronic illnesses. We distinguish a range of kinds of vulnerability, including epistemic vulnerabilities related to epistemic injustices, and describe various interpersonal and institutional processes which can create, exacerbate, and intensify those vulnerabilities. The dynamics of vulnerablisation are related to individual vices and institutional failings, the the pervasive pathophobia of many societies, and various contingent life-events. We conclude that susceptibility to varieties of vulnerabilisation is ultimately reflective of the fragility that is definitive of the human condition.
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