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Record W4417529502 · doi:10.58445/rars.3262

Subjectivity, Suffering, and Epistemic Injustice in MAID

2025· preprint· W4417529502 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
L. S. Fu

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicFeminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInjusticeEconomic JusticeArgument (complex analysis)Agency (philosophy)

Abstract

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The expansion of MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) to Canadian patients suffering primarily from mental health conditions raises many practical and ethical challenges.This paper examines the potential threat of epistemic injustice in the accurate assessment of mental health patients seeking MAID.The MAID assessment process relies heavily on medical practitioner knowledge of patient suffering, which is difficult when the suffering is primarily psychological.These difficulties are compounded by the threat of epistemic injustice: the injustice to one's status as a knower, including one's knowledge of their own suffering.By using Miranda Fricker's (2007) framework of epistemic injustice, this paper identifies areas where testimonial and hermeneutical injustices may negatively impact the assessment process.It concludes by suggesting a number of ameliorative interventions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.019
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.038
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.144
Threshold uncertainty score0.286

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0190.038
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0160.058
Scholarly communication0.0110.006
Open science0.0010.015
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.350
Teacher spread0.322 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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