Care at a distance on the closeness of technology
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Care & welfare
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419783206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
