@article{ref1,
title="Medicalization, contributory injustice, and mad studies",
journal="Kennedy institute of ethics journal",
year="2022",
author="Gagné-Julien, Anne-Marie",
volume="32",
number="4",
pages="401-434",
abstract="One recent body of work has concerned medicalization and how it can create epistemic injustice. It focuses on medicalization as a hermeneutical process that shapes the conceptual framework(s) we use to refer to some conditions/experiences. In parallel, some scholars with lived experience of madness have started to explore the epistemic harms suffered by the Mad community. Building on this, I argue that the process of medicalization in psychiatry affects the Mad community in a specific way that has been overlooked in the literature on medicalization and epistemic injustice. That is, medicalization can create what is called &quot;contributory injustice.&quot; This form of injustice occurs when marginalized communities have been able to create alternative hermeneutical resources, but these resources are dismissed or discredited by the dominant group. I argue that the emerging field of Mad Studies is a victim of this type of injustice when Mad experiences are unilaterally medicalized.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1054-6863",
doi="10.1353/ken.2022.0023",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ken.2022.0023"
}