Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare

1. Who Cares?
Nelly Oudshoorn

2. Theorizing Technology and the Transformation of Healthcare
Nelly Oudshoorn

Part I. Reordering Care

3. Promises, Scenarios, and Silences
Nelly Oudshoorn

4. Resistance and Boundary Work
Nelly Oudshoorn

Part II. Creating New Forms of Care

5. Telecare Workers: The Invisible Profession
Nelly Oudshoorn

6. How Places Matter in Healthcare: Physical and Digital Proximity
Nelly Oudshoorn

Part III. Redefining Patients and Home

7. Patients as Diagnostic Agents: Invisible Work and Selective Use
Nelly Oudshoorn

8. Inspecting Bodies and Coping with Disease at Home
Nelly Oudshoorn

Part III. Redefining Patients and Home

9. Conclusions: The Importance of Place, Proximity and Diversity
Nelly Oudshoorn

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Medical Sociology, Sociology, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Biomedicine general, Human Geography, Public Health