The Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare (EPIC) project is a sister project of ‘Beyond Voice’. Funded by a £2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Grant and led by Professor Havi Carel, this six-year project will use philosophical expertise to help bring patient voices into healthcare research and practice.
The concept of epistemic injustice (EI) in healthcare identifies epistemically unjust ways of conceiving of illness, treating ill persons and allocating healthcare. This application to healthcare, initiated by Havi Carel and Ian Kidd, has inaugurated a new research area with its own significant and growing literature. However, much work remains to be done. There are understudied forms of EI in healthcare; there is a need for a detailed empirical study of EI cases in healthcare and for empirical testing and validation of the concept; there is little research on how EI could be ameliorated; and the conceptual resources of EI need to be integrated into wider discourses about healthcare.