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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Oudshoorn, N

Titel

Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Winner of the British Sociological Association's Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize. 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. 13 02 NELLY OUDSHOORN is Professor of Technology Dynamics and Healthcare at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Her research interests focus around issues of the development and use of new technologies in healthcare. She is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Prize awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (2005) and the Diana Forsyth Award of the American Medical Informatics Association (2009). 08 02 Winner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2012 31 02 This book describes how telecare technologies transform healthcare by redefining the responsibilities and identities of patients and changing the spaces where healthcare is situated 02 02 This books analyses what happens when healthcare moves from physical to virtual encounters between patients and healthcare professionals. 04 02 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 19 02 Analyzes how healthcare practices have been transformed by telecare technologies currently introduced in the US, Canada and Europe Argues for the importance of place and physical contact despite the move to virtual encounters between healthcare professionals and patients Explores how telecare technologies transform the home and public places into spaces of care Examines how telecare technologies redefine the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals