The Invention of the Medical Record
Max Perry reflects on the development of the modern medical record I. The Medical Record as Technology I can tell you a lot about medical records. About the strange things found inside them (an
Max Perry reflects on the development of the modern medical record I. The Medical Record as Technology I can tell you a lot about medical records. About the strange things found inside them (an
Being a patient today increasingly means being an image. Liz Orton’s new artist’s book, Every Body is an Archive, takes the medical image as a site of critical enquiry to explore questions of ownership, language and power within the clinical encounter. Polyphony editor Fiona Johnstone met with Liz Orton to talk about the book, the centrality of image-making to medical practice, and how right now is a radical moment for the clinical gaze.