Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context [Paperback]

This volume breaks new ground by?asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.Introduction: Informing Gender? Health and Information Technologies in Context; E.Balka, E.Green & F.Henwood All Change? Gender, Health and the Internet;? F.Henwood & S.Wyatt Gendered Identities and Caring: Health Intermediaries and Technology in Rural and Remote Queensland ; L.Simpson, M.Hall & S.Leggett Geeks Who Care: Gender, Caring and Community Access Computers ; L.Bella Cyber-Burdens: Emerging Imperatives in Women's Unpaid Care Work; R.Harris Nursing Technologies? Gender, Care, and Skill in the Use of Patient Care Information Systems;? Z.Sharman Gender, Information Technology and Making Health Work: Unpacking Complex Relations at Work; E.Balka ? Gendering Work? Women and Technologies in Health Care; P.Armstrong, H.Armstrong & K.Messing Ungendering Women's Health: Information Systems and Occupational Health Indicators; G.Le Jeune 'It Can See into Your Body': Gender, ICTs and and Decision Making about Midlife Women's Health; E.Green, F.Griffiths & A.Lindenmeyer Conclusion: Reconfiguring the Gender, Technology and Health Relationship;? E.Balka, E.Green & F.Henwood

'...a welcome contribution to the body of evidence about the socio-technical co-construction of technology, health and gender... this volume is of interest to multiple audiences. It is equally appropriate to nursing, health sciences, information studies, and labour studies.' - International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology

'...the book clearly fulfils its aim to bring together analysis of gender, ICTs and health care, addressing a gap in existing literature.' - Sociology of Health and Illness

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