This books analyses what happens when healthcare moves from physical to virtual encounters between patients and healthcare professionals. 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) and the Diana Forsyth Award of the American Medical Informatics Association (2009). INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction - Who Cares? - Theorizing Technology and the Transformation of Healthcare - PART I: REORDERING CARE - Promises, Scenarios and Silences - Resistances and Boundary Work - PART II: CREATING NEWFORMS OF CARE - Telecare Workers: The Invisible Profession - How 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 Diversity - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-30020-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés