Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context (Health, Technology and Society)

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. This empirically-grounded volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in health care and, conversely, by asking 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Informing Gender? Health and ICTs in Context....Pages 1-16 All Change? Gender, Health and the Internet....Pages 17-33 Gendered Identities and Caring: Health Intermediaries and Technology in Rural and Remote Queensland....Pages 34-52 Geeks Who Care: Gender, Caring and Community Access Computers....Pages 53-71 Cyber-Burdens: Emerging Imperatives in Women’s Unpaid Care Work....Pages 72-87 Nursing Technologies? Gender, Care, and Skill in the Use of Patient Care Information Systems....Pages 88-103 Gender, Information Technology, and Making Health Work: Unpacking Complex Relations at Work....Pages 104-121 Gendering Work? Women and Technologies in Health Care....Pages 122-137 Ungendering Women’s Health: Information Systems and Occupational Health Indicators....Pages 138-156 9 ‘It Can See into Your Body’: Gender, ICTs and Decision Making about Midlife Women’s Health....Pages 157-176 Conclusion: Re-configuring the Gender, Health and Technology Relationship....Pages 177-187 Back Matter....Pages 188-220