New technologies and emerging spaces of care:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate ©2010
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care -- An Introduction; 1 Cracks in the Door? Technology and the Shifting Topology of Care; 2 The Securitization of Care Spaces: Lessons from Telecare; 3 Exploring the Affordances of Telecare-related Technologies in the Home; 4 Clutter Moves in Old Age Homecare; 5 Homespace or Workspace? The Use of Multiple Assistive Technologies in Private Dwellings; 6 Electric Snakes and Mechanical Ladders? Social Presence, Domestic Spaces, and Human-Robot Interactions
7 Technology and Good Dementia Care: An Argument for an Ethics-in-Practice Approach8 Social Remembering as an Art of Living: Analysis of a 'Reminiscence Museum'; 9 A Pillow Squirrel and its Habitat: Patients, a Syndrome, and their Dwelling(s); 10 Accessing Care: Technology and the Management of the Clinic; Index
Exploring and analysing the social and cultural impact of new technologies, this book examines the societal relevance of new technologies of care and the manner in which technological innovations configure and reconfigure institutionalized spaces of care. It provides the latest practice-oriented qualitative research and innovative conceptual discussions of how health and health care systems are currently dealing with complex transformations and varied reforms
Physical Description:xiii, 224 pages
ISBN:9780754697015
0754697010
9780754678649
0754678644

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