Care at a distance : on the closeness of technology / Jeannette Pols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pols, J. (Jeannette), 1966- author.

Series:

Care & welfare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home care services--Technological innovations.

Home care services.

Medical ethics.

Medical informatics.

Telecommunication in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 10 2025)

ISBN:

9786613643896

9781280666964

128066696X

9789048513017

9048513014

OCLC:

794181541