Overview
- Critically engages with dominant perspectives on expertise in the fields of social sciences and psychology
- Connects current debates around mental health and expertise with literature on digitally mediated patient engagement
- Offers a cutting-edge resource for scholars from multiple fields, including STS, medical sociology and media studies
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)
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“Adopting a science and technology studies approach, this intriguing book shows how expertise has different meanings to the diverse actors who are part of defining and managing biopolar disorder. As Egher's analysis demonstrates, material practices and standpoints combine to enact expertise in specific contexts. This book will be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about how expertise is multiple, dynamic and complex.” (Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor in the Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney)
“This book offers a novel approach to expertise as a practical and collective achievement. With its sharp and effective focus on mental health and digital communities, it produces wide-ranging and generally applicable conclusions about expertise and the internet’s potential to democratize knowledge. The lucid description of exchanges on digital platforms on bipolar disorder makes this book a must-read for mental health professionals, STS researchers and public health policymakers alike.” (Wiebe E. Bijker, Professor of Technology & Society, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
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Book Title: Digital Healthcare and Expertise
Book Subtitle: Mental Health and New Knowledge Practices
Authors: Claudia Egher
Series Title: Health, Technology and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9178-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9177-5Published: 03 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9180-5Published: 09 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9178-2Published: 02 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-3386
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Media Sociology