Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This bookexamines the ways in whichordinary people locate and digest the amount of health information available today, focusing on the unexplored 'middle' place of human and technical mediators.

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Yes, you can access Mediating Health Information by N. Wathen, S. Wyatt, R. Harris, N. Wathen,S. Wyatt,R. Harris in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Social Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2008

ISBN

9780230227323

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Social Policy

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Series Editors’ Preface
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
1 The Go-Betweens: Health, Technology and Info(r)mediation
2 ‘Everybody’s Talking at Me’: Situating the Client in the Info(r)mediary Work of the Health Professions
3 Health Intermediaries? Positioning the Public Library in e-Health Discourse
4 To Filter or Not to Filter: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Librarians’ Use of Internet Filtering Techniques
5 Invisible Logic: The Role of Software as an Information Intermediary in Health Care
6 Personalized Narrative Diagnostic Imaging: Can it Mediate Patient–System Dialogue?
7 Using the Internet as a Health Intermediary: Providing Information and Services to Marginalized Sexual Communities
8 Between the Clinic and the Community: Pathways for an Emerging e-Health Policy in the Remote First Nations of Northwestern Ontario
9 ‘We’re All Out there Busting Our Guts, Trying to Do the Best that We Can for Our People’: Health Intermediaries in Australian Indigenous Communities
10 Helpers, Gatekeepers and the Well-Intentioned: The Mixed Blessings of HIV/AIDS Info(r)mediation in Rural Canada
11 Reflections on the Middle Space
Bibliography
Index