Epistemic violence: A reality in the everyday life of the nursing professional

Abstract

Below, a reflection is presented on the elements that institute and validate a type of violence such as epistemic violence, and how this in turn perpetuates gender inequality and the subjectivity of inferiority built in nursing as a profession. The text is made up of multidisciplinary knowledge of the Social Sciences, from which the concept of epistemic violence is analyzed and discussed, to carry out a brief and respectful readaptation of these meanings on the configuration of this violence in the psyche and body of nurses. Thus, we realize the various forms, structures, institutions and authorities that nullify women nurses as an epistemic source of Public Health, coupled with the fact that gender parity and the recognition of this profession continues to be a historical that violence itself has covered up.