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:Care & welfare
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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).
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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