Telecare technologies and the transformation of healthcare

著者

• Oudshoorn, Nelly

書誌事項

Telecare technologies and the transformation of healthcare

Nelly Oudshoorn

（Health, technology and society）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

• : hardback

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies: information and communication technologies that enable care at a distance. What happens when healthcare moves from physical to virtual encounters between healthcare professionals and patients? What are the consequences for patients when they are expected to do things that used to be done by healthcare professionals? What actually happens when homes become electronically wired to healthcare organizations? These are urgent questions that are, however, largely absent in dominant discourses on telecare. Drawing on insights from science, technology, and human geography, this work opens up novel accounts of the adoption and use of new technologies in healthcare. Nelly Oudshoorn shows how telecare technologies participate in redefining the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals, introducing a new category of healthcare workers, and changing the kinds of care and spaces where healthcare is situated. This book intervenes critically into discourses that celebrate the independence of place and time by showing how places and physical contacts still matter in care at a distance.

目次

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 NEW FORMS 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

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB1533299X
• ISBN:
  • 9780230300200
• LCCN: 2011030621
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Basingstoke
• ページ数/冊数: x, 241 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : RA645.3
  • DC23 : 362.140285
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Home care services -- Technological innovations
  • LCSH : Telecommunication in medicine
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA77972199