EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE IN HEALTHCARE: PERSPECTIVES FROM PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, LAW, HISTORY, PSYCHIATRY, AND LIVED EXPERIENCE.

From July 14th to July 17th, 2026 project EPIC will host a Summer School at Ce.U.B (Centro Residenziale Universitario di Bertinoro) in Bertinoro, Italy. The event is made possible by generous funding by the Wellcome Trust, which will also subsidise the delegates' subsistence costs.

Topics for lectures will encompass perspectives from philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, history, legal scholarship, clinical practice, and lived experience. Themes will include:

• the ineffability of illness
• AI-enhanced healthcare and epistemic injustice
• phenomenological approaches to epistemic injustice in medicine
• the role of dignity and person-centred care in an epistemic just healthcare
• the importance of clinical communication for good and epistemically just medicine
• moral responsibility and epistemic injustice
• legal and clinical approaches to epistemic injustice
• the centrality of agency in youth mental health
• co-design and co-production as ameliorative strategies
• epistemic injustice in dementia, schizophrenia, and depression.

EPIC researchers Jodie Russell, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, Dan Degerman, Fred Cooper, Ellie Byrne, Alice Monypenny and Michael Bresalier will also participate, leading reading groups and discussion sessions on recent journal articles and book chapters.   Topics for discussion will include: 

• uptake of delusional beliefs
• vaccine hesitancy and epistemic injustice
• silence and testimonial smothering
• loneliness
• affective injustice
• phenomenology and intersectionality.

If you are interested in joining us, there is a form to apply (see link below) as places are limited. The deadline for applications is 1st March 2026 and the outcome will be made known to applicants by 2nd April 2026.