Practicing Reliability
Reconstructing Traditional Boundaries in the Gray Areas of Health Information Review on the Web
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam (0000-0002-6800-410X, Erasmus MC, corresponding author), Samantha Adam, Samantha Adams (Erasmus MC), Roland Bal (0000-0001-7202-5053, Erasmus MC) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34-54 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243907311267 |
| OpenAlex | W2170236307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
The availability of medical and health information on the world wide web has led to a long discussion about the reliability of that information. Various medical, political, and independent organizations have created user-friendly tools for finding reliable medical/health information on the web and have been faced with the challenge of (re)defining what it means for information to be reliable. Little attention has been given to the work of reviewing web-based information and applying selection criteria to individual sites. In this article, the authors examine how guidelines are applied in practice and discuss how the selection criteria and the practices of applying them reinforce distinctions (such as those between lay and expert, global and local, nonprofit and commercial, etc.) that current medical sociology and informatics literature suggests have been broken down by internet technologies and the availability of web-based medical information
Health care · Informatics · Knowledge management · Medical information · Political science · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Engineering · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Medical Research and Practices · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · Health Informatics
Infodemiology
Studies in ethnomethodology
'E-health'
Researching the 'Informed Patient
Sorting Things Out
Standardization in Action
Philosophical investigations
Of Forms, Containers, and the Electronic Medical Record
The 'expert patient
Consumerism, reflexivity and the medical encounter
The Promise of Public Health
Orders and Their Others
Ignorance is bliss sometimes
Guidelines, professionals and the production of objectivity
Doctor in the house
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |