Abstract

The distinction that De Haan and Korsten foreground in their valuable commentary between, on the one hand, medical files, and, on the other, illness records is very helpful, as it underlines that illness narratives are not bound to a specific truth regime. They operate in, and at times even across, a variety of truth regimes, within which their status and function can radically differ. In that light, De Haan and Korsten have a point when they state that “any patient’s experience” “exceed[s] the domain of the medical proper”. Quoting from my contribution, they go on to...