In her book, Epistemic Injustice, philosopher Miranda Fricker argues that before the phrase “sexual harassment” became prevalent in the 1970s, women may not have understood what had happened to them; it was hard to put the unease into words.
“SEEING IN ART AND MEDICINE” at the Harvard Art Museums, Boston, is a public-facing exhibition that emerged from a program at the city’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital for using art to teach residents in radiology and nuclear medicine how to become more self-aware, compassionate, and caring doctors.
Whilst some have the luxury to forget – or at least attempt to – others pass it down through intergenerational trauma because they cannot, and will not, forget.