Technology and medical practice

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2248679
AutoresC Heath (0000-0003-3196-0197, King's College London), Paul Luff (0000-0001-5046-2279, King's College London), Marcus Svensson (King's College London), Marcus Sanchez Svensson
Ano2003
Volume25
Fascículo3
Páginas75-96
Data de publicação2003-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.00341
PMID14498931
OpenAlexW1500810555
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas51
Referências citadas40

One of the most significant developments in healthcare over the past 25 years has been the widespread deployment of information and communication technologies. These technologies have had a wide-ranging impact on the organisation of healthcare, on professional practice and on patients' experience of illness and its management. In this paper we discuss the ways in whichSociology of Health and illnesshas provided a forum for the analysis of these new technologies in healthcare. We review a range of relevant research published in the Journal; papers that address such issues as dehumanisation and emotional labour, professional practice and identity, and the social and institutional shaping of technology. Despite these important initiatives, we suggest that information and communication technologies in healthcare remain relatively under-explored within the Journal and, more generally, by the sociology of health and illness and point to developments in cognate areas which may have some bearing upon the analysis of technology in action

Action (physics · Dehumanization · Engineering ethics · Health care · Health technology · Identity (music · Information technology · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Software deployment · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation