Introduction
This article examines the insidious effects of silent ethnicization in French hospitals, taking a sociolinguistic, postcolonial and feminist approach to medical practices. Based on a corpus of participant observations, qualitative interviews, life stories and experiences of racialized patients, it sheds light on the implicit racial biases that permeate healthcare relationships, influence diagnoses, and contribute to a hierarchization of pain.
Results
Drawing on the works of Frantz Fanon1, as well as that of Joëlle Palmieri2on algology and « la douleur impensée » (pain which has not been considered), the article shows how certain types of sufferings - particularly those of racialized women - are systematically disqualified, downplayed or psychologized. This factory of ignorance, inherited from a long sexist and colonial medical past, still fuels unequal care practices today, often invisible to institutions which may even lead to deaths.
Discussion
The analysis also looks at healthcare professionals from diasporas, who find themselves caring for patients who resemble them, while having to deal with the dominant norms of the hospital institution. This paradox highlights the need to rethink medical training and dominant biomedical reading grids, in order to decolonize healthcare knowledge and recognize minoritized pain as legitimate, politically situated signals.
Conclusion
The article concludes with a call for a situated ethic of care. Like the pioneering Sorbonne University course recently featured in Le Monde (« Quand la médecine s'interroge sur ses ‘biais implicites raciaux » - « When medicine questions its « implicit racial bias »), 20243, it argues for an in-depth transformation of medical practices towards a public health inclusive of otherness, emancipated from the prejudices that kill in silence.
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