Care at a distance: on the closeness of technology

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2012
ISBN
  • 9789089643971
Series Care & Welfare
Number of pages 204
Publisher Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA)
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract In Care at a Distance: On the Closeness of Technology Jeannette Pols demonstrates that actual care practices employing telecare do not resemble the hopes of the industry and policy makers, nor the nightmares of ethicists. The detailed ethnographic studies of pioneering telecare practices show how
nurses and patients re-shape care when they start using telecare devices. The book frames urgent questions about the future of telecare and the ways in which innovative care practices can be built on facts rather than hopes, hypes or nightmares.
Document type Book
Language English
Published at http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=413032
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