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Mediating Health Information: The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape(Health, Technology and Society)

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

Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 1: The Go-Betweens: Health, Technology and Info(r)mediation. Sally Wyatt, Roma Harris and, Nadine Wathen CHAPTER 2: 'Everybody's Talking at Me': Situating the Client in the Info(r)mediary Work of the Health Professions. Leslie Bella, Roma Harris, Debbie Chavez, Jana Fear and Penny Gill CHAPTER 3: Health Intermediaries? Positioning the Public Library in E-Health Discourse. Flis Henwood, Roma Harris, Samantha Burdett and Audrey Marshal CHAPTER 4: To Filter or Not to Filter: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Librarians' Use of Internet Filtering Techniques. Elaine Gibson and Jan Sutherland CHAPTER 5: Invisible Logic: The Role of Software as an Information Intermediary in Health Care. Ellen Balka and Arsalan Butt CHAPTER 6: Personalized Narrative Diagnostic Imaging: Can it Mediate Patient-System Dialogue? Peter Pennefather and West Suhanic CHAPTER 7: Using the Internet as a Health Intermediary: Providing Information and Services to Marginalized Sexual Communities. T.C. Sanders CHAPTER 8: Between the Clinic and the Community: Pathways for an Emerging E-Health Policy in the Remote First Nations of Northwestern Ontario. Adam Fiser and Robert Luke CHAPTER 9: We're All Out there Busting Our Guts, Trying to Do the Best that We Can for Our People': Health Intermediaries in the Australian Indigenous Communities. Lyn Simpson, Michelle Hall and Susan Leggett CHAPTER 10: Helpers, Gatekeepers and the Well-Intentioned: The Mixed Blessings of HIV/AIDS Info(r)mediation in Rural Canada. Roma Harris, Tiffany Veinot, Leslie Bella, Irving Rootman and Judith Krajnak CHAPTER 11: Reflections on the Middle Space. Nadine Wathen, Roma Harris and Sally Wyatt.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781349299386
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2008
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1349299383
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 218
  • Series Title: Health, Technology and Society
  • Sub Title: The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape
  • Width: 155 mm


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