Overview
- Analyzes how healthcare practices have been transformed by telecare technologies currently introduced in the US, Canada and Europe
- Argues for the importance of place and physical contact despite the move to virtual encounters between healthcare professionals and patients
- Explores how telecare technologies transform the home and public places into spaces of care
- Examines how telecare technologies redefine the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals
Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)
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Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012.
This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies: information and communication technologies that enable care at a distance. What happens when healthcare moves from physical to virtual encounters between healthcare professionals and patients? What are the consequences for patients when they are expected to do things that used to be done by healthcare professionals? What actually happens when homes become electronically wired to healthcare organizations? These are urgent questions that are, however, largely absent in dominant discourses on telecare.
Drawing on insights from science, technology, and human geography, this work opens up novel accounts of the adoption and use of new technologies in healthcare. Nelly Oudshoorn shows how telecare technologies participate in redefining the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals, introducing a new category of healthcare workers, and changing the kinds of care and spaces where healthcare is situated. This book intervenes critically into discourses that celebrate the independence of place and time by showing how places and physical contacts still matter in care at a distance.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
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Reordering Care
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Creating New Forms of Care
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Redefining Patients and Home
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Winner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2012 Winner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2012
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nelly Oudshoorn is Professor of Technology Dynamics and Healthcare at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Her research interests focus around issues of the development and use of new technologies in healthcare. She is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Prize awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (2005), the Diana Forsythe Award of the American Medical Informatics Association (2009) and the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare
Authors: Nelly Oudshoorn
Series Title: Health, Technology and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348967
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30020-0Published: 27 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57972-0Published: 27 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-34896-7Published: 27 October 2011
Series ISSN: 2946-3386
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 241
Topics: Medical Sociology, Sociology, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Biomedicine general, Human Geography, Public Health