QSIG Midday Talk: Case studies of epistemic injustice in maternity care settings: from normative concepts to situated practice

Mary Adams presents this month's QSIG Midday Talk, titled "Case studies of epistemic injustice in maternity care settings: from normative concepts to situated practice"

Talk abstract:

This presentation considers ethnographic findings from a 3-year NIHR HS&DR study examining approaches to the improvement of disclosure and discussion with families after incidents of harm in NHS maternity care. Data collected included national stakeholder and HCP interviews (n=111); family interviews (n=24) and in-depth observational research in 3 maternity services in England. Drawing from normative concepts of epistemic injustice and psychosocial approaches to knowledge encounters we examine how injured families are marginalised as seekers of information on what happened, as sources of knowledge and as participants in organisational imperatives of safety improvement and reputational repair. We glimpse at ways that some families achieved a hearing within and beyond services.

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