ABSTRACT
Healthcare has increasingly become suffused with high-tech applications, in particular, systems based on information and communication technologies (ICTs). As Brown and Webster noted in their book on ‘new medical technologies’:
Today, maintaining the body is a problem of technological apprehension or capture requiring the production of new systems for codification, storage, accessibility and distribution. The object of maintenance and care then is no longer simply the individual body, but representations or traces of the body in globalized systems of information and data management.
(Brown and Webster 2004: 80–1).