This volume breaks new ground byasking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2009

ISBN

9780230245396

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Global Development Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Half-Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Informing Gender? Health and ICTs in Context
1 All Change? Gender, Health and the Internet
2 Gendered Identities and Caring: Health Intermediaries and Technology in Rural and Remote Queensland
3 Geeks Who Care: Gender, Caring and Community Access Computers
4 Cyber-Burdens: Emerging Imperatives in Women’s Unpaid Care Work
5 Nursing Technologies? Gender, Care, and Skill in the Use of Patient Care Information Systems
6 Gender, Information Technology, and Making Health Work: Unpacking Complex Relations at Work
7 Gendering Work? Women and Technologies in Health Care
8 Ungendering Women’s Health: Information Systems and Occupational Health Indicators
9 ‘It Can See into Your Body’: Gender, ICTs and Decision Making about Midlife Women’s Health
Conclusion: Re-configuring the Gender, Health and Technology Relationship
Bibliography
Index