Making and Unmaking Telepatients

Identity and Governance in New Health Technologies

Bibliographic Data

ID5337934
AuthorsMaggie Mort (0000-0003-0188-324X, Lancaster University), Tracy Finch (0000-0001-8647-735X, Newcastle University), C May (0000-0002-0451-2690, Newcastle University)
Year2009
Volume34
Issue1
Pages9-33
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243907311274
OpenAlexW2027529702
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited34

The emergence of the field of health care at a distance, or "telehealth," has been embedded within discourses of high ambition about health improvement, seamless services, empowerment, and independence for patients. In this article, the authors examine how telehealthcare technologies assume certain forms of patients-or "telepatients"-who can be mobilized and combined with images and artifacts that speak for them in the clinical encounter. Second, a tentative intervention is made in these emerging identities in the form of facilitating some alternative discourses about telehealthcare. The aim is to stimulate debate by presenting and contrasting these different approaches to technology development. Such differences take material and discursive shape in the making and unmaking of telepatients, showing important interferences in the shaping of identity and possibilities for governance and participation

Aesthetics · Art · Business · Corporate governance · Empowerment · Health care · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Telehealth · Telemedicine · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Nursing · Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

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