Care at a distance : : on the closeness of technology / / Jeannette Pols.

• Superior document: Care & welfare
• VerfasserIn: Pols, J. 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Care & welfare
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).
• 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
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 128066696X; 9786613643896; 9048513014
• 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.