Abstract
Telecare Technology and the Transformation of Healthcare / Care at a Distance: On the Closeness of Technology
Highlights
A patient + body weight + webcam + home + computer + health professional + standard + policy: most social science scholars involved in analysis of technology will recognize that this adds up to a socio-technical assemblage of some kind
The two excellent books on telecare that we review here are written by STS-scholars with longstanding engagements with questions raised in relation to technological and epistemological transformations in healthcare
Oudshoorn has published extensively on issues around medical technologies and their users, and Jeannette Pols has explored interrelations between practices, ethics, and technologies in care practices. In their present works both have the Netherlands as the primary setting of their ethnographic inquiries into transformations brought about by the introduction of telecare arrangements of various kinds. This shared geographical affiliation may not be coincidental as medical practices in the Netherlands have long striven to incorporate ICTs in medical practice and are a rich source of wellregarded STS-scholarship on medicine, technology, and innovation more broadly
Summary
Oudshoorn: Telecare Technology and the Transformation of Healthcare. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. 256 pages.
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