Illness as a Site of Interpretive Harm (Descriptive Note)
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This document is a non-canonical descriptive note identifying conditions under which illness is commonly misinterpreted once bodily disruption must be inferred from visible signals. It does not define illness, assess severity, determine legitimacy, assign responsibility, or authorise inference, intervention, or action. Its sole function is to mark interpretive limits and prevent harm arising from over-reading visibility. This note operates alongside upstream structural boundary instruments addressing shared origin conditions, interpretive distortion, and disease-adjacent meaning, and does not stand alone as an explanatory account of illness.
Author: Irwin, Niwha
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7119470402
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