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These images are about the body and sickness and the use of technology in treatment of illness. My recent experiences visiting intensive care treatment rooms have showed me that machines and electrical equipment have more physical contact with patients than nurses doctors or care staff. The result of this is that nurses develop the skills of a technician or body engineer. Increasingly tasks are governed by equipment wired up to the patient which needs to be closely monitored and adjusted and cleaned and topped up with medications and fluids. The machine is fed and the machine feeds the patient, the pump is filled and the pump administers the medication to the patient. the machine is adjusted and blood pressure rises or falls as needed. The machine governs and regulates the breathing rate and oxygen supply. The blood stream is cleaned outside the body in a machine which filters and warms the blood before its return.