UID:
edocfu_9958065626202883
Format:
1 online resource (204 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-66696-X
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9786613643896
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90-485-1301-4
Series Statement:
Care & welfare
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:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Nightmares, promises and efficiencies in care and research --
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1. Introduction --
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Part I. Norms and nightmares --
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2. Caring devices: About warm hands, cold technology and making things fit --
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3. The heart of the matter: Good nursing at a distance --
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Part II. Knowledge and promises --
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4. Caring for the self? Enacting problems, solutions and forms of knowledge --
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5. Knowing patients: On practical knowledge for living with chronic disease --
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Part III. Routines and efficiencies --
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6. Zooming in on webcams: On the workings of a modest technology --
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7. Economies of care: New routines, new tasks --
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Conclusions: On studying innovation --
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8. Innovating care innovation --
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Acknowledgements --
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Appendix: Projects studied for this book --
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Notes --
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References --
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Index of names --
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Index of subjects
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-8964-397-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789048513017
