Miranda Fricker
Miranda Fricker is a philosopher best known for naming epistemic injustice: the harm done when people are wronged in their capacity as knowers. Her work is useful for understanding how parents, disabled children, and marginalised families are disbelieved, minimised, or made unintelligible by institutions.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…