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Perioperative medicine, which comprises the preoperative clinic, the anaesthetic room and the surgical table, is at once the most instrument\u2010saturated arena in clinical practice and the one in which the patient is most completely translated into a body and a stream of numbers before being rendered, by design, unconscious and mute.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aims and Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To examine the operating theatre as the limit case of the patient\u2010as\u2010expert debate; to distinguish the physiological silencing of anaesthesia, which is a clinical necessity rather than an injustice, from the epistemic injustice that surrounds it; and to translate this analysis into a concrete, testable programme for epistemic justice in perioperative care.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A conceptual and philosophical analysis, drawing on Fricker's account of testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, Dotson's analysis of silencing, the phenomenology of illness developed by Toombs, Leder, Carel and Svenaeus, and Foucault's account of the medical gaze, together with the person\u2010centred care, capability and philosophical\u2010health literatures.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We show how the theatre's gaze and its production pressures conspire to make the patient's testimony hard to hear; that general anaesthesia abolishes, for a time, the lived body from which patient knowledge is drawn, so raising rather than lowering the stakes of gathering that knowledge before the silence and crediting it after; that the several mechanisms at work, testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, structural silencing, production pressure and the authority of the anaesthetic record, must be told apart; and that accidental awareness is the emblem of the perioperative economy of credibility. Throughout, the patient is treated not only as a source of clinically useful information but as an interpreting and valuing person whose standing is what is finally at stake.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The operating theatre is the sharpest and most instructive test case for taking the patient seriously as a knower. 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