Care at a distance : on the closeness of technology /
"This widely researched study demonstrates convincingly that neither grandiose promises nor nightmare scenarios have much to do with actual care practices employing telecare. Combining detailed ethnographic studies of nurses and patients involved in telecare with a broad theoretical framework f...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2012]
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Colección: | Care & welfare.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nightmares, promises and efficiencies in care and research
- Part I: Norms and nightmares. Caring devices: about warm hands, cold technology and making things fit ; The heart of the matter: good nursing at a distance
- Part II: Knowledge and promises. Caring for the self? Enacting problems, solutions and forms of knowledge ; Knowing patients: on practical knowledge for living with chronic disease
- Part III: Routines and efficiencies. Zooming in on webcams: on the workings of a modest technology ; Economies of care: new routines, new tasks
- Conclusions on studying innovation. Innovating care innovation
- Appendix: Projects studied for this book.