Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9789048513017
Series Statement:
Care and Welfare Series
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089643971
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9789089643971
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789048513017
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
