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Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

AvN. Oudshoorn

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Nelly Oudshoorn shows how telecare technologies participate in redefining the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals, introducing a new category of healthcare workers, and changing the kinds of care and spaces where healthcare is situated.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-10-27
Mått140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt312 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHealth, Technology and Society
Antal sidor241
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137579720

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Nelly Oudshoorn is Professor of Technology Dynamics and Healthcare at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Her research interests focus around issues of the development and use of new technologies in healthcare. She is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Prize awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (2005), the Diana Forsythe Award of the American Medical Informatics Association (2009) and the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize (2012).

Acknowledgements IntroductionWho Cares? Theorizing Technology and the Transformation of Healthcare PART I: REORDERING CARE Promises, Scenarios and Silences Resistances and Boundary WorkPART II: CREATING NEW FORMS OF CARETelecare Workers: The Invisible ProfessionHow Places Matter in Healthcare: Physical and Digital Proximity PART III: REDEFINING PATIENTS AND HOME Patients as Diagnostic Agents: Invisible work and Selective Use Inspecting Bodies and Coping with Disease at Home Conclusions: The Importance of Place, Proximity and DiversityNotesBibliographyIndex