Care at a Distance. On the Closeness of Technology<\/a>, Amsterdam University Press, 2012<\/p>\nPoliticians promote telecare as an efficient and affordable solution in providing medical care for an ageing population. Telecare, they promise us, will support older people with chronic disease to \u2018manage\u2019 themselves better and thereby reduce the amount of health professionals needed. Nevertheless, technology-pessimists assert that telecare will transform human care into a distant and cold affair. They predict that older people will die while under the continuous surveillance of sensors and cameras, but remote from any real human contact<\/p>\n
This widely researched study presents some of the detailed ethnographic analyses of the pioneering care practices in which patients and nurses use telecare devices. It analyses these practices with the help of theoretical insights drawn from various fields, such as anthropology, science- & technology studies and empirical ethics<\/p>\n
The author concludes that neither a caring utopia of self managing patients nor an uncaring high-tech health care system bears any resemblance to actual care practices employing telecare. In the observed practices, telecare leads to more intense caring relations, resulting from a spectacular raise in the frequency of contacts between nurses and patients. Patients are much taken by this, not because they feel they are finally able to manage themselves better, but because they can \u2018leave things to the experts\u2019.The patients find that caring is something that is best done for others.<\/p>\n
The book frames urgent questions about the future of care and telecare, and points to ways in which innovative care practices can be built on actual and everyday concerns, rather than on hopes, hypes or nightmares.\n<\/p>\n
L\u2019ouvrage traite de questions pressantes \u00e0 propos du soin et de la t\u00e9l\u00e9m\u00e9decine. Il pointe des directions vers lesquelles des pratiques de soin innovantes peuvent \u00eatre construites \u00e0 partir des pr\u00e9occupations actuelles et ordinaires\u00a0; plut\u00f4t que de grands espoirs, de la publicit\u00e9 ou des cauchemars.<\/p>\n
The seminar is open upon registration to all interested persons.<\/p>","excerpt":"
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