Psychiatrists Can Also Experience Epistemic Injustice

Reconnecting with Ethos in Mental Health

Authors

  • Timothy Daly Science, Norms, Democracy, UMR 8011, Sorbonne University, Paris, France; Bioethics Program, FLACSO Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1650-242X
  • Paola Buedo Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Department of Preclinical Medicine, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Bioethics Program, FLACSO Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1913-5728

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2024.209

Keywords:

Epistemic injustice, Ethos, Mental health, Psychiatry

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2024-10-01

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Daly, T., & Buedo, P. (2024). Psychiatrists Can Also Experience Epistemic Injustice: Reconnecting with Ethos in Mental Health. Philosophy of Medicine, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2024.209

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024)

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