Care at a Distance :
Pols, Jeannette,
Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology / Jeannette Pols. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012] ©2012 - 1 online resource (204 p.) - Care and Welfare Series .
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
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 healthcare at a distance. Drawing on ethnographic studies of both patients and nurses involved in telecare, Jeannette Pols demonstrates that instead of resulting in less intensive care for patients, there is instead a staggering rise in the frequency of contact between nursing staff and their patients. Care at a Distance takes the theoretical framework of telecare and provides hard data about these innovative care practices, while producing an accurate portrayal of the pros and cons of telecare.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9789048513017
2012476400
Home care services--Technological innovations.
Medical ethics.
Medical informatics.
Telecommunication in medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
RA645.3 / .P64 2012
362.14
Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology / Jeannette Pols. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012] ©2012 - 1 online resource (204 p.) - Care and Welfare Series .
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
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 healthcare at a distance. Drawing on ethnographic studies of both patients and nurses involved in telecare, Jeannette Pols demonstrates that instead of resulting in less intensive care for patients, there is instead a staggering rise in the frequency of contact between nursing staff and their patients. Care at a Distance takes the theoretical framework of telecare and provides hard data about these innovative care practices, while producing an accurate portrayal of the pros and cons of telecare.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9789048513017
2012476400
Home care services--Technological innovations.
Medical ethics.
Medical informatics.
Telecommunication in medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
RA645.3 / .P64 2012
362.14