Degrees of voicelessness: epistemic injustice and eating disorder narratives

饮食失调的受试者很容易失声；这个项目将使用文学、批评和后殖民理论来首先确定和解决饮食失调症受试者所能接触到的失声程度。后殖民理论及其对医学人文科学的干预为其他实践如何在生物医学上表现提供了洞察力；在进食障碍话语中，这产生了一个标准的患者，他们是白人、女性、年轻、自我饥饿和西方人。在这种捏造的原型模型之外存在的患者“变得不可见，但这些患者仍然受到同样持久的社会污名的攻击，所有厌食症患者都受到攻击”(Seaber，2016：3)。其次，我认为文学可以作为一个启发式的镜头，通过它来修改关于饮食失调的话语，阅读和写作的过程可以是发展与饮食失调主题相关的伦理实践的中心。

Subjects with eating disorders are vulnerable to voicelessness; this project will use literature, criticism, and postcolonial theory to first identify and address the degrees of voicelessness to which subjects with eating disorders are privy. Postcolonial theory and its interventions in the medical humanities provide insight into how Othering practices manifest biomedically; in eating disorder discourse this produces a normative sufferer who is white, female, young, self-starving, and Western. Sufferers who exist beyond this fabricated archetypal model 'become invisible, yet these patients are nevertheless subject to the same abiding social stigma that assaults all anorexia patients' (Seaber, 2016: 3). Second, I propose that literature can function as a heuristic lens through which to modify discourses on disordered eating, and that processes of reading and writing can be central in developing ethical practices of relating to subjects with eating disorders.