Care at a Distance: On the Closeness of Technology
Author(s): Jeannette Pols (Author)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Publication Date: 9 Feb. 2014
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 204 pages
ISBN-10: 9089643974
ISBN-13: 9789089643971
Book Description
This widely researched study demonstrates convincingly that neither grandiose promises nor nightmare scenarios have much to do with actual care practices employing telecare. Combining detailed ethnographic studies of nurses and patients involved in telecare with a broad theoretical framework from various disciplines, the author concludes that these practices lead to more rather than less intense caring relations, resulting from a spectacular raise in the frequency of contacts between nurses and patients. Patients are much taken with this, not because they feel they are finally able to manage themselves, but because they can ‘leave things to the experts’ 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Finding the enmeshing in the politics and practices of telecare innovation challenging and inspiring ourselves, we would welcome more contributions that could stand on the firm basis of the work of these two insightful scholars and from here continue the development of a vocabulary fitted for engaging assertively, critically and for the betterment of society and healthcare. Dual Review of Jeannette Pols: Care at a Distance: On the Closeness of Technology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2012 and Nelly Oudshoorn: Telecare Technology and the Transformation of Healthcare. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. — Karen Dam Nielsen and Henriette Langstrup, Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen, Science & Technology Studies Journal.[-][-] [-][-][-]”Care at a Distance eloquently combines theories from various disciplines with detailed empirical analyses of telecare practices – also relevant for non-academic actors in the field.” — Hans Harbers, is philosopher of science, technology and society and author of Inside the Politics of Technology (AUP).[-][-][-] [-][-]”Pols’s exciting new book provides important insights into how innovative telecare practices are ‘achieved’ in everyday practice and how ‘uncontrolled’ field studies can be used both to understand and improve care practices.” — Flis Henwood, Professor of Social Informatics in the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton, UK. She has published widely on e-health discourse, the internet and the ‘informed patient’.[-][-] [-][-]”Jeannette Pols has written a timely and thought-provoking book about what happens when technologies are used to provide healthcare at a distance. By listening to the experiences of those who use the technologies, as healthcare providers or as patients, Pols provides a much-needed balance to the usual focus on efficiency.” — Sally Wyatt, Director of the Netherlands Graduate School of Science,Technology and Modern Culture[-][-] [-][-]”Care at a Distance lays out a variety of ways in which long distance health care may work. Written attentively and with a real sense of engagement, it also offers long distance care. Intellectual care this time. For you, the captivated reader.” — Annemarie Mol, professor of Anthropology of the Body at the University of Amsterdam; author of Ziek is het woord niet; The Body Multiple and The Logic of Care
From the Back Cover
De toekomst van telezorg en de manier waarop we innovaties in de zorg zouden kunnen baseren op feiten in plaats van op dromen, hypes of nachtmerries. Politici promoten ‘telezorg’ als de meest efficiënte oplossing voor de vergrijzing en ontgroening. Zorgverleners maken gebruik van webcams, e-mail en websites om met patiënten te communiceren en instr
About the Author
Jeannette Pols is senior researcher at the Amsterdam Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam.
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