Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare [electronic resource] / by N. Oudshoorn.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780230348967
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/29527
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2011.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 241 p. online resource.
Dizi
Health, Technology and Society, 2946-3378
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Social medicine.
Sociology.
Medical sciences.
Medicine __ Research.
Biology __ Research.
Human geography.
Public health.
Medical Sociology.
Sociology.
Health Sciences.
Biomedical Research.
Human Geography.
Public Health.
Sociology.
Medical sciences.
Medicine __ Research.
Biology __ Research.
Human geography.
Public health.
Medical Sociology.
Sociology.
Health Sciences.
Biomedical Research.
Human Geography.
Public Health.
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