Society is too slow to learn what learned people look like: Black women ARE what a doctor looks like
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Two years ago, in the wake of an incident in which a black woman doctor attempted to render medical aid and was dismissed due to doubt that she was a physician, IJFAB Blog featured a post on the issue of … Continue reading

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New issue is out! And don’t miss the University of Toronto Press Blog based on an article from the new issue of IJFAB
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The new issue of IJFAB is out with some spectacular articles on topics ranging from childbirth to epistemic injustice to patient noncompliance to Saudi Arabian bioethics. Scroll down to the bottom for the table of contents! The UT Press Blog … Continue reading

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What you don’t know CAN hurt you: Epistemic Injustice and Conceptually Impoverished Health Promotion
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I want to consider a particular kind of wrong within medicine and health promotion: epistemic injustice and its harms. My case study is obesity conceived of as a public health concern. However, the analytic framework I deploy may prove useful … Continue reading

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