Medicine at a Distance in Sweden
Spatiotemporal Matters in Accomplishing Working Telemedicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21237100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jesper Petersson (0000-0003-3339-642X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 43-63 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science & Technology Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2243-4690 • E-ISSN: 2243-4690 |
| Publisher | Science and Technology Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.23987/sts.55263 |
| OpenAlex | W2185271861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper examines the accomplishment of making technology work, using the discourse around telemedicine in Swedish healthcare during 1994-2003. The paper will compare four projects launched in the mid-1990s and policymakers’ visions of healthcare through telemedicine. I will employ a sociotechnical approach developed within Actor-Network Theory that understands functioning technology not as something intrinsic but as an outcome of an ongoing process of negotiations. In the paper, I will extend the sociotechnical approach of what constitutes working technology to include spatiotemporal matters. I will also approach the closely related issue of space that has become a concern of Actor-Network Theory scholars interested in the accomplishment and continued workings of technology as it travels. In this discussion, an emphasis on fixed relations (network space) has been challenged by investigations into changing relations (fluid space). This paper suggests that in order to travel well, technology must be both fixed and fluid
Actor–network theory · Health care · Knowledge management · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Telemedicine · Vision · Computer Science · Engineering · Healthcare Systems and Technology · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Law
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Physical and digital proximity
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |