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Balka, Ellen

Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context

Balka, Ellen - Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context, ebook

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Table of contents

1. Introduction: Informing Gender? Health and ICTs in Context
Flis Henwood, Eileen Green, Ellen Balka

2. All Change? Gender, Health and the Internet
Flis Henwood, Sally Wyatt

3. Gendered Identities and Caring: Health Intermediaries and Technology in Rural and Remote Queensland
Lyn Simpson, Michelle Hall, Susan Leggett

4. Geeks Who Care: Gender, Caring and Community Access Computers
Leslie Bella

5. Cyber-Burdens: Emerging Imperatives in Women’s Unpaid Care Work
Roma Harris

6. Nursing Technologies? Gender, Care, and Skill in the Use of Patient Care Information Systems
Zena Sharman

7. Gender, Information Technology, and Making Health Work: Unpacking Complex Relations at Work
Ellen Balka

8. Gendering Work? Women and Technologies in Health Care
Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Karen Messing

9. Ungendering Women’s Health: Information Systems and Occupational Health Indicators
Gael Jeune

10. 9 ‘It Can See into Your Body’: Gender, ICTs and Decision Making about Midlife Women’s Health
Eileen Green, Frances Griffiths, Antje Lindenmeyer

11. Conclusion: Re-configuring the Gender, Health and Technology Relationship
Eileen Green, Flis Henwood, Ellen Balka

Keywords: Social Sciences, Medical Sociology, Nursing Management, Sociology, general, Sociology of the Body, Gender Studies, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education

Editor
 
 
Publisher
Springer
Publication year
2009
Language
en
Edition
1
Series
Health, Technology and Society
Page amount
237 pages
Category
Society
Format
Ebook
eISBN (PDF)
9780230245396
Printed ISBN
978-1-349-30348-9

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