Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context [electronic resource] /
Balka, E.editor.
Green, E.editor.
Henwood, F.editor.
This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: informing gender? health and information technologies in context / E. Balka, E. Green & F. Henwood -- All change? gender, health and the internet / F. Henwood & S. Wyatt -- Gendered identities and caring: health intermediaries and technology in rural and remote Queensland / L. Simpson, M. Hall & S. Leggett Geeks who care: gender, caring and community access computers / L. Bella -- Cyber-burdens: emerging imperatives in women's unpaid care work / R. Harris -- Nursing technologies? gender, care, and skill in the use of patient care information systems / Z. Sharman -- Gender, information technology and making health work: unpacking complex relations at work / E. Balka -- Gendering work? women and technologies in health sare / P. Armstrong, H. Armstrong & K. Messing -- Ungendering women's health: information systems and occupational health indicators / G. Le Jeune -- "It can see into your body": gender, ICTs and and decision making about midlife women's health / E. Green, F. Griffiths & A. Lindenmeyer -- Conclusion: reconfiguring the gender, technology and health relationship / E. Balka, E. Green & F. Henwood.
This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.
Social medicine.
Nursing administration.
Sociology.
Human body-Social aspects.
Science-Social aspects.
Medical Sociology.
Nursing Management.
Sociology, general.
Sociology of the Body.
Gender Studies.
Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education.