Embodied injustice, socially caused illness, and depression
In his discussion of “marginalized bodies,” Leder maintains that members of oppressed social groups encounter not just discriminatory treatment and limited access to societal resources, but also “embodied injustice”. Such injustice occurs when an “inferior group” is not only identified with the body...
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| description | In his discussion of “marginalized bodies,” Leder maintains that members of oppressed social groups encounter not just discriminatory treatment and limited access to societal resources, but also “embodied injustice”. Such injustice occurs when an “inferior group” is not only identified with the body as such, but also labeled as “having the wrong kind of body”. This devaluation of certain kinds of bodies results in an alteration of people’s embodied ways of feeling, perceiving, and acting in the world. Both in injury or illness and in cases of embodied injustice, there is often (a) a constriction of lived space, (b) a disruption of lived time, and (c) isolation. To illustrate how these distressing disruptions to the body-world relation are caused largely by social factors, Leder turns to incarcerated persons (Chap. 6) and elders (Chap. 7) as case studies. Building upon this discussion, I argue that depression is both an illness that involves the sorts of alterations to the body schema that Leder outlines, and also the result of various socially caused harms. Just as the restrictions imposed by illness and incarceration can become mutually reinforcing, so, too, can the restrictions imposed by depression and the social stigmatization that often accompanies it. This has some important implications for healing and treatment. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-335262297b3540b7aeae8c3c70971c4c2024-12-27T17:06:36ZdeuMimesis Edizioni, MilanoRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia2039-46672239-26292024-12-0115212012810.4453/rifp.2024.0014Embodied injustice, socially caused illness, and depressionMichelle MaieseIn his discussion of “marginalized bodies,” Leder maintains that members of oppressed social groups encounter not just discriminatory treatment and limited access to societal resources, but also “embodied injustice”. Such injustice occurs when an “inferior group” is not only identified with the body as such, but also labeled as “having the wrong kind of body”. This devaluation of certain kinds of bodies results in an alteration of people’s embodied ways of feeling, perceiving, and acting in the world. Both in injury or illness and in cases of embodied injustice, there is often (a) a constriction of lived space, (b) a disruption of lived time, and (c) isolation. To illustrate how these distressing disruptions to the body-world relation are caused largely by social factors, Leder turns to incarcerated persons (Chap. 6) and elders (Chap. 7) as case studies. Building upon this discussion, I argue that depression is both an illness that involves the sorts of alterations to the body schema that Leder outlines, and also the result of various socially caused harms. Just as the restrictions imposed by illness and incarceration can become mutually reinforcing, so, too, can the restrictions imposed by depression and the social stigmatization that often accompanies it. This has some important implications for healing and treatment.https://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/view/rifp.2024.0014/1359biomedical approach to psychiatrydesynchronizationepistemic injusticeracismstigmatizationstereotypes |
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| topic | biomedical approach to psychiatry desynchronization epistemic injustice racism stigmatization stereotypes |
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