Care at a distance : on the closeness of technology / / Jeannette Pols [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910141327503321
• Autore: Pols J (Jeannette), <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-66696-X; 9786613643896; 90-485-1301-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Care & welfare
• Disciplina: 362.14
• Soggetti: Home care services - Technological innovations; Medical ethics; Medical informatics; Telecommunication in medicine
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.