Epistemic Injustice and the Anorexic Voice: Rethinking Care through Sophia Gore’s The Rustle of a Wing: Finding Hope Beyond Anorexia

Abstract

This paper analyzes Sophia Gore’s The Rustle of a Wing: Finding Hope Beyond Anorexia through Miranda Fricker’s concepts of testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, supported by insights from medical humanities and narrative medicine. This memoir showcases how patients with anorexia nervosa are silenced at medical institutions. Gore’s account of institutional treatment exposes a system that reduces the patient to measurable symptoms while ignoring her narrative agency. By examining how the memoir critiques biomedical dismissal and insists on the ethical centrality of storytelling, this paper advocates for a care model that restores epistemic credibility to patients through narrative attention, representation, and affiliation.