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Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology / Jeannette Pols.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Care and Welfare SeriesPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048513017
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 362.14
LOC classification:
  • RA645.3 .P64 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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