Philosophical Arguments
A collective term used to denote a range of perspectives that have in common what has been described as a ‘turn to matter’.
What is new materialism?
This is defined as non-acceptance and lack of understanding from healthcare practitioners, including not taking seriously what patients communicate, imposing their own thoughts, or discrediting patients’ emotions.
What is medical invalidation?
An interdisciplinary field examining the complex relationship between science, technology, and society.
What is STS?
Came up with vital materialism.
Who is Jane Bennett?
Leading journal that focuses on advanced feminism and psychology?
What is Feminism & Psychology?
A scholarship that developed a focus on articulating women’s ways of knowing and validating women’s different experiences.
What is feminist knowledges?
Our society becomes increasingly concerned with disease prevention and health promotion, more social behavior is thought about from the framework of medicine and treatment.
What is medicalization?
---- focuses on the psychological factors influencing health behaviors and well-being.
What is health psychology?
Came up with healthism and new moralism.
Who is Robert Crawford?
Journal that focuses on women's reproductive health.
What is Women's Reproductive Health?
This instead invites a focus on embodied, situated, immediate and often more affective forms of experience.
What is embodiment?
The preoccupation with personal health as a primary-often the primary-focus for the definition and achievement of well-being; a goal which is to be attained primarily through the modification of life styles, with or without therapeutic help.
What is healthism?
---- is a branch of philosophy that examines the theoretical, ethical, and practical foundations of medicine.
What is the philosophy of medicine?
Worked on epistemic injustice for health/medicine, pathology based prejudice.
Who is Carel & Kidd?
Journal that focuses on South Asia?
In which epistemology has been a transcendent, neutral pursuit, establishing the truth of knowledge claims about the objective world.
What is Western epistemology?
This injustice targets individuals, discrediting them, because they are living with an illness or chronic condition, or those perceived as such, specifically because they are patients.
What is (pathocentric) epistemic injustice?
---- examines health and illness through a cultural, social, and historical lens.
What is medical anthropology?
Came up with "culture of disrespect" concept.
Who is Supriya Subramani?
Leading journal that focuses on advanced feminist philosophy.
What is Hypatia?
Members of [different] paradigms live in different worlds, then they are fundamentally incapable of communication, this is known as.
What is incommensurability?
To make manifest what I call “thing-power.” I do so in order to explore the possibility that attentiveness to (nonhuman) things and their powers can have a laudable effect on humans.
What is "vital materialism" or "material agency"?
---- examines the lasting effects of colonialism on healthcare systems and practices, particularly in formerly colonized regions. It analyzes how historical power imbalances continue to shape health outcomes and access to care, and it seeks to address these inequities. This involves critically evaluating medical practices.
What is postcolonial medicine?
Writing about women's health research in 2006, defined the areas of focus for future research.
Who is Marcia Inhorn (2006)?
Journal that focuses on women's health.
What is BMC Women's Health?