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Mediating Health Information

The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. C. Nadine Wathen

    1. The University of Western Ontario, Canada

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  2. Sally Wyatt

    1. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands

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  3. Roma Harris

    1. The University of Western Ontario, Canada

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

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Go-Betweens: Health, Technology and Info(r)mediation

    • Sally Wyatt, Roma Harris, Nadine Wathen
    Pages 1-17

  3. ‘Everybody’s Talking at Me’: Situating the Client in the Info(r)mediary Work of the Health Professions

    • Leslie Bella, Roma Harris, Debbie Chavez, Jana Fear, Penny Gill
    Pages 18-37

  4. Health Intermediaries? Positioning the Public Library in e-Health Discourse

    • Flis Henwood, Roma Harris, Samantha Burdett, Audrey Marshall
    Pages 38-55

  5. To Filter or Not to Filter: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Librarians’ Use of Internet Filtering Techniques

    • Elaine Gibson, Jan Sutherland
    Pages 56-77

  6. Invisible Logic: The Role of Software as an Information Intermediary in Health Care

    • Ellen Balka, Arsalan Butt
    Pages 78-93

  7. Personalized Narrative Diagnostic Imaging: Can it Mediate Patient-System Dialogue?

    • Peter Pennefather, West Suhanic
    Pages 94-108

  8. Using the Internet as a Health Intermediary: Providing Information and Services to Marginalized Sexual Communities

    • T. C. Sanders
    Pages 109-127

  9. Between the Clinic and the Community: Pathways for an Emerging e-Health Policy in the Remote First Nations of Northwestern Ontario

    • Adam Fiser, Robert Luke
    Pages 128-149

  10. ‘We’re all out there busting our guts, trying to do the best that we can for our people’: Health Intermediaries in Australian Indigenous Communities

    • Lyn Simpson, Michelle Hall, Susan Leggett
    Pages 150-166

  11. Helpers, Gatekeepers and the Well-Intentioned: The Mixed Blessings of HIV/AIDS Info(r)mediation in Rural Canada

    • Roma Harris, Tiffany Veinot, Leslie Bella, Irving Rootman, Judith Krajnak
    Pages 167-181

  12. Reflections on the Middle Space

    • Nadine Wathen, Roma Harris, Sally Wyatt
    Pages 182-193

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 194-218
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About this book

Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This book examines the ways in which ordinary people locate and digest the amount of health information available today, focusing on the unexplored 'middle' place of human and technical mediators.

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'[A] good book...there is plenty here that will be of interest to those involved in making policy and practice decisions in the provision of health care and health information support'. - Sociology of Health and Illness

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Western Ontario, Canada

    C. Nadine Wathen, Roma Harris

  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands

    Sally Wyatt

About the editors

NADINE WATHEN is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario. She holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award to support her research, which includes: women's health, decision making, intervention research in the area of violence against women, translation and mobilization of research evidence to policy and practice, and projects on health information seeking and use. 

SALLY WYATT is Professor of Digital Cultures in Development at Maastrict University, The Netherlands, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the relationship between technological and social change, especially on issues of social exclusion and inequality.

ROMA HARRIS is Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada. Currently, her work focuses on health information-seeking and she is leading the 'Rural HIV/AIDS Information Network Project' funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

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