Disembedded Presence. The Recomposition of Patients and Medical Practices in Telenephrology

Telemedicine appears to be an attractive means for patients & specialists to be present to one another. However, while technologies are mobilized by actors in specific clinical projects, they also impose on them their potentialities & their limitations. By acting on the actors themselves, technologies recompose the medical practices in a problematic way. This recomposition of patients & medical practices is the prism through which a telenephrology case is analyzed. The case sheds light on the manner in which the clinical relation is recomposed by the introduction of technologies whose potential implications may conflict with actors' projects. This may explain the under-use of those technologies. References. Adapted from the source document.