Mediating health information
Subtitle: the go-between in a changing socio-technical landscape
By: [edited by] Nadine Wathen, Sally Wyatt, and Roma Harris.
Contributors: Wathen, Nadine, 1968-; Wyatt, Sally, 1959-; Harris, Roma M.
Series: Health, technology, and society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Communication in medicine; Health education; Medical informatics; Consumer Health Information -- methods; Consumer Health Information -- trends; Health Personnel; Information Services -- trends; Information Systems -- trends; Librarians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The go-betweens: health, technology and info(r)mediation / Sally Wyatt, Roma Harris, and Nadine Wathen; title: Everybody's talking at me: situating the client in the info(r)mediary work of the health professions / Leslie Bella ... [et al.]; title: Health intermediaries: positioning the public library in e-health discourse / Flis Henwood ... [et al.]; title: To filter or not to filter: legal and ethical aspects of librarians use of internet filtering techniques / Elaine Gibson and Jan Sutherland; title: Invisible logic: the role of software as an information intermediary in health care / Ellen Balka and Arsalan Butt; title: Personalized narrative diagnostic imaging: can it mediate patient-system dialogue? / Peter Pennefather and West Suhanic; title: Using the Internet as a health intermediary: providing information and services to marginalized sexual communities / T.C. Sanders; title: Between the clinic and the community: pathways for an emerging e-health policy in the remote First Nations of northwestern Ontario / Adam Fiser and Robert Luke; title: We're all out there busting our guts, trying to do the best that we can for our people?: health intermediaries in Australian indigenous communities / Lyn Simpson, Michelle Hall and Susan Leggett; title: Helpers, gatekeepers and the well-intentioned: the mixed blessings of HIV/AIDS info(r)mediation in rural Canada / Roma Harris ... [et al.]; title: Reflections on the middle space / Nadine Wathen, Roma Harris, and Sally Wyatt.