In communities disproportionately affected by deprivation and respiratory ill health, the legacy of mining and heavy industry, smoking-related disease, air pollution and occupational exposures (dust, chemicals) is compounded by healthcare inequalities and the inverse care law, whereby resources are often least available in areas of greatest need. For millions of people living with chronic lung conditions, the resulting breathlessness limits everyday life, undermining physical, psychological, social, financial and spiritual wellbeing.

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Well-meaning campaigns urge openness and conversation about mental health struggles. But there are those who cherish silence

Health and illness are significantly determined by knowledge and its communication. At first glance, this might seem obvious; people use healthcare systems when they suspect that something might be wr...

Explanatory Essentialism (EE) is the view that a property is the essence of a kind because it causally explains the many properties that instances of the kind exhibit. This paper examines an applicati...

Silence has been a relatively neglected phenomenon despite its significance in psychiatric research. Acknowledging this oversight, there has been a recent move towards systematically describing the fi...

Silence is a byword for socially imposed harm in the burgeoning literature on epistemic injustice in psychiatry. While some silence is harmful and should be broken, this understanding of silence is un...