Thure von Uexküll†’s scientific contributions

... Testimonial injustice is grounded on a stereotyping assignment of an individual to a particular social group and occurs when prejudice causes a hearer to ascribe a deflated level of credibility to a speaker's testimony (Fricker, 2007). In medical practice, a scientific epistemology and the biomedical model of disease are action guiding and go hand in hand with an understanding of the human body shaped by the natural sciences and a causal way of thinking (Sulik, 2011;von Uexküll & Wesiack, 2011). Not infrequently, this leads to non-scientific forms of knowledge being judged as unreliable. ...

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Clinical Ethics Consultation in Chronic Illness: Challenging Epistemic Injustice Through Epistemic Modesty