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eHealth and Me: The Implications of the Net for Health Care Relationships

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This chapter is concerned with the extent to which health care relationships and processes can be mediated and supported by technological channels and services and the impact those channels and services have on these relationships and their outcomes. I will start with a re-examination of the concept of care itself: what is it to care and to be cared for? This may appear to be an unnecessarily radical move but seems, to the author, to be one that is forced by the nature of the presenting problem and the history of the development of the relationship between ICT and health care.

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Martin, M. (2014). eHealth and Me: The Implications of the Net for Health Care Relationships. In: Gaddi, A., Capello, F., Manca, M. (eds) eHealth, Care and Quality of Life. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5253-6_4

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