Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the
Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces
the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies:
information and communication technologies that enable care at a
distance. What happens when healthcare moves from physical to
virtual encounters between healthcare professionals and patients?
What are the consequences for patients when they are expected to do
things that used to be done by healthcare professionals? What
actually happens when homes become electronically wired to
healthcare organizations? These are urgent questions that are,
however, largely absent in dominant discourses on telecare. Drawing
on insights from science, technology, and human geography, this
work opens up novel accounts of the adoption and use of new
technologies in healthcare. 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. This book intervenes
critically into discourses that celebrate the independence of place
and time by showing how places and physical contacts still matter
in care at a distance.
General
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Health, Technology and Society |
| Release date: |
December 2011 |
| First published: |
2011 |
| Authors: |
N Oudshoorn
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
241 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-230-30020-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
Telemedicine
|
| LSN: |
0-230-30020-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780230300200 |
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