Gender, health and information technology in context
By: edited by Ellen Balka, Eileen Green, Flis Henwood
Series: Health, technology and society; Health, technology, and society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780230216341
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: informing gender? health and information technologies in context / E. Balka, E. Green & F. Henwood; title: All change? gender, health and the internet / F. Henwood & S. Wyatt; title: 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; title: Cyber-burdens: emerging imperatives in women's unpaid care work / R. Harris; title: Nursing technologies? gender, care, and skill in the use of patient care information systems / Z. Sharman; title: Gender, information technology and making health work: unpacking complex relations at work / E. Balka; title: Gendering work? women and technologies in health sare / P. Armstrong, H. Armstrong & K. Messing; title: Ungendering women's health: information systems and occupational health indicators / G. Le Jeune; title: "It can see into your body": gender, ICTs and and decision making about midlife women's health / E. Green, F. Griffiths & A. Lindenmeyer; title: Conclusion: reconfiguring the gender, technology and health relationship / E. Balka, E. Green & F. Henwood.