Care at a Distance : : On the Closeness of Technology / / Jeannette Pols.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Pols, Jeannette,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Care and Welfare Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Nightmares, promises and efficiencies in care and research --; 1. Introduction --; Part I. Norms and nightmares --; 2. Caring devices: About warm hands, cold technology and making things fit --; 3. The heart of the matter: Good nursing at a distance --; Part II. Knowledge and promises --; 4. Caring for the self? Enacting problems, solutions and forms of knowledge --; 5. Knowing patients: On practical knowledge for living with chronic disease --; Part III. Routines and efficiencies --; 6. Zooming in on webcams: On the workings of a modest technology --; 7. Economies of care: New routines, new tasks --; Conclusions: On studying innovation --; 8. Innovating care innovation --; Acknowledgements --; Appendix: Projects studied for this book --; Notes --; References --; Index of names --; Index of subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048513017; 9783110700671; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048513017?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: Open Access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jeannette Pols.

Often the switch to telecare-technology used to help caretakers provide treatment to their patients off-site-is portrayed as either a nightmare scenario or a much needed panacea for all our healthcare woes. This widely researched study probes what happens when technologies are used to provide healthcare at a distance. Drawing on ethnographic studies of both patients and nurses involved in telecare, Jeannette Pols demonstrates that instead of resulting in less intensive care for patients, there is instead a staggering rise in the frequency of contact between nursing staff and their patients. Care at a Distance takes the theoretical framework of telecare and provides hard data about these innovative care practices, while producing an accurate portrayal of the pros and cons of telecare.