The main argument and the way this text suggest for my own work.

Trouillot's conceptualization of history as both: a process and our knowledge about this process, is relevant to my research of women victims of sexual and obstetric violence. My interest concerns the formulation of medical history in health care settings and ways in which health care settings facilitate therapeutic trust between patients and health care providers. Medical history is a starting point of interaction between health care providers and women patients. When patients describe their medical histories, they chose which details to disclose and which details to withhold. The environment in which healthcare takes place: physical, social, and symbolic, encourages some types of health narratives while silencing the others.