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Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context (Health, Technology and Society)
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Hardcover. This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts. Editor(s): Balka, Ellen; Green, Eileen; Henwood, Flis. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 237 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; MBP; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.
This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Health Technology and Society
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230216341
SKU
V9780230216341
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Ref
99-15
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HUGH ARMSTRONG Full Professor cross-appointed to the School of Social Work and to the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada PAT ARMSTRONG Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada and holds a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation Chair in Health Services ELLEN BALKA Professor in the School of Communication, ... Read more
Reviews for Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context (Health, Technology and Society)
'...a welcome contribution to the body of evidence about the socio-technical co-construction of technology, health and gender... this volume is of interest to multiple audiences. It is equally appropriate to nursing, health sciences, information studies, and labour studies.' - International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology '...the book clearly fulfils its aim to bring together analysis of ... Read more