- What does Tressie McMillan Cottom mean when she says that US healthcare systems assume black women’s incompetence?
- As she conveys the story, how might Cottom’s pregnancy have been different had the healthcare workers involved read her as competent?
- What are some stereotypes and structural features of modern healthcare that (according to Kidd & Carel) make patients especially vulnerable to epistemic injustice?
- One kind of epistemic injustice in healthcare is testimonial injustice. Give an example (from Cottom, Kidd & Carel, your own experience, or elsewhere) and explain what makes it a case of testimonial injustice.
- Another kind of epistemic injustice in healthcare is hermeneutical injustice. Give an example (from Cottom, Kidd & Carel, your own experience, or elsewhere) and explain what makes it a case of hermeneutical injustice.