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Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Nelly Oudshoorn

    1. University of Twente, The Netherlands

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  • Analyzes how healthcare practices have been transformed by telecare technologies currently introduced in the US, Canada and Europe

  • Argues for the importance of place and physical contact despite the move to virtual encounters between healthcare professionals and patients

  • Explores how telecare technologies transform the home and public places into spaces of care

  • Examines how telecare technologies redefine the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals

Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Who Cares?

      • Nelly Oudshoorn
      Pages 3-16

    3. Theorizing Technology and the Transformation of Healthcare

      • Nelly Oudshoorn
      Pages 17-31

  3. Reordering Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Promises, Scenarios, and Silences

      • Nelly Oudshoorn
      Pages 35-67

    3. Resistance and Boundary Work

      • Nelly Oudshoorn
      Pages 68-88

  4. Creating New Forms of Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Telecare Workers: The Invisible Profession

      • Nelly Oudshoorn
      Pages 91-123

    3. How Places Matter in Healthcare: Physical and Digital Proximity

      • Nelly Oudshoorn
      Pages 124-141

  5. Redefining Patients and Home

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Patients as Diagnostic Agents: Invisible Work and Selective Use

      • Nelly Oudshoorn
      Pages 145-167

    3. Inspecting Bodies and Coping with Disease at Home

      • Nelly Oudshoorn
      Pages 168-189

    4. Conclusions: The Importance of Place, Proximity and Diversity

      • Nelly Oudshoorn
      Pages 190-211

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 212-241
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About this book

Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies: information and communication technologies that enable care at a distance. What happens when healthcare moves from physical to virtual encounters between healthcare professionals and patients? What are the consequences for patients when they are expected to do things that used to be done by healthcare professionals? What actually happens when homes become electronically wired to healthcare organizations? These are urgent questions that are, however, largely absent in dominant discourses on telecare. Drawing on insights from science, technology, and human geography, this work opens up novel accounts of the adoption and use of new technologies in healthcare. Nelly Oudshoorn shows how telecare technologies participate in redefining the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals, introducing a new category of healthcare workers, and changing the kinds of care and spaces where healthcare is situated. This book intervenes critically into discourses that celebrate the independence of place and time by showing how places and physical contacts still matter in care at a distance.

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Winner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2012 Winner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2012

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Nelly Oudshoorn

About the author

Nelly Oudshoorn is Professor of Technology Dynamics and Healthcare at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Her research interests focus around issues of the development and use of new technologies in healthcare. She is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Prize awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (2005), the Diana Forsythe Award of the American Medical Informatics Association (2009) and the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize (2012).

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