Patient-centered record

“The topic to be addressed here is the embodying of the patient: the production of a patient with a body whose characteristics are the effect of the interrelation of the patient with a growing number of professionals and investigative probes, and with a medical record which becomes more and more significant as a gravitational node in these interrelations” (Berg & Harterink, 14) . . .The patient-centered record might be seen to perform the patient as a Subject: a bounded, coherent and unified self, with a history that forms a whole, and an inner core tha t is unique to this person and constitutive of who she or he is. . . . The patient record concretely attires the patient with many of the characteristics of liberal subjectivity (Hayles, 1999): coherence, boundedness, centeredness, unique historicity, self-determination” (Berg & Harterink, 29).