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Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare
Nelly Oudshoorn
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Description for Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare
Paperback. This books analyses what happens when healthcare moves from physical to virtual encounters between patients and healthcare professionals. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBGT; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Health Technology and Society
Condition
New
Weight
324g
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137579720
SKU
V9781137579720
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Ref
99-15
About Nelly Oudshoorn
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 ... Read more
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Winner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2012