Gebundenes Buch

Mediating Health Information

The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape

Herausgegeben: Wathen, N.; Wyatt, S.; Harris, R.

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

NADINE WATHEN is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario. She holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award to support her research, which includes: women's health, decision making, intervention research in the area of violence against women, translation and mobilization of research evidence to policy and practice, and projects on health information seeking and use.  SALLY WYATT is Professor of Digital Cultures in Development at Maastrict University, The Netherlands, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the relationship between technological and social change, especially on issues of social exclusion and inequality. ROMA HARRIS is Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada. Currently, her work focuses on health information-seeking and she is leading the 'Rural HIV/AIDS Information Network Project' funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Produktdetails

• Health, Technology and Society
• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-20120-0
• 2008 edition
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780230201200
• ISBN-10: 0230201202
• Artikelnr.: 25072325

Rezensionen

'[A] good book...there is plenty here that will be of interest to those involved in making policy and practice decisions in the provision of health care and health information support'. - Sociology of Health and Illness