Telecare technologies and the transformation of healthcare
By: Nelly Oudshoorn
Series: Health, technology and society; Health, technology, and society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780230300200
Subjects: Technological innovations; Home care services; Telecommunication in medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Who cares?; title: Theorizing technology and the transformation of healthcare; title: Promises, scenarios and silences; title: Resistances and boundary work; title: Telecare workers : the invisible profession; title: How places matter in healthcare : physical and digital proximity; title: Patients as diagnostic agents : invisible work and selective use; title: Inspecting bodies and coping with disease at home; title: Conclusions : the importance of place, proximity and diversity.