Care at a Distance : : On the Closeness of Technology / / 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 health...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Care and Welfare Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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