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OverviewNew Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care 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. 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 addresses issues of social control, accountability, surveillance and disciplining; diverging patterns of inclusion and exclusion; new relations and subjectivities of patients and care givers; the relation between private and public forms of care and the practices and concerns generated by new technologies at the individual as well as the societal level. Presenting sophisticated theoretical discussions and detailed empirical case studies, New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care analyses, compares and evaluates on a transnational level the role and impact of (assistive) technologies for elderly and disabled people on the concepts and practices of spaces of care. A critical understanding of contemporary practices of care, that cuts through the growing conceptual barriers between social and medical models of care studies, this book will be of interest to those interested in new technologies, health care and social space of care. Specifically, it will appeal to scholars of science and technology studies, medical sociology and the sociology of the body, social inequality and exclusion, health and care studies, gerontology and disability studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Miquel Domènech , Michael SchillmeierPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780754678649ISBN 10: 0754678644 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 28 November 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'If you could just read here about alarm mattresses, front doors, secure spaces, clutter, drinking coffee in the dining room, mundane work, robot arms, ongoing accomplishments, memorial materials and engaging in pillow experiments, this book would be worth reading anyway. But there is more. This is a good book about good care.' Annemarie Mol, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands '... this book will enrich and confirm the body of knowledge about assistive technologies and their use at home and in care facilities.' Age and Ageing 'If you could just read here about alarm mattresses, front doors, secure spaces, clutter, drinking coffee in the dining room, mundane work, robot arms, ongoing accomplishments, memorial materials and engaging in pillow experiments, this book would be worth reading anyway. But there is more. This is a good book about good care.' Annemarie Mol, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands '... this book will enrich and confirm the body of knowledge about assistive technologies and their use at home and in care facilities.' Age and Ageing Author InformationMichael Schillmeier is professor for sociology at the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK Miquel Domenech lectures in the Department of Social Psychology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Michael Schillmeier, Miquel Domenech, Christine Milligan, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts, Daniel Lopez, Chris Tweed, Peter A. Lutz, Hanne Lindgaard, Sosser Brodersen, Mark Paterson, Hilde Thygesen, Ingunn Moser, Elena Bendien, Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey, Research Center for Shared Incompetence/Xperiment!, B. Kraeftner, J. Kroell, G. Ramsebner, L. Peschta, I. Warner, Alexandra Hillman, Joanna Latimer, Paul White. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |