Balka, Ellen
Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context
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
- Balka, Ellen
- Green, Eileen
- Henwood, Flis
- 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