the go-between in a changing socio-technical landscape /
[edited by] Nadine Wathen, Sally Wyatt, and Roma Harris.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
xviii, 218 pages ;
23 cm.
Health, technology, and society
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The go-betweens: health, technology and info(r)mediation / Sally Wyatt, Roma Harris, and Nadine Wathen -- Everybody's talking at me: situating the client in the info(r)mediary work of the health professions / Leslie Bella [and others] -- Health intermediaries: positioning the public library in e-health discourse / Flis Henwood [and others] -- To filter or not to filter: legal and ethical aspects of librarians use of internet filtering techniques / Elaine Gibson and Jan Sutherland -- Invisible logic: the role of software as an information intermediary in health care / Ellen Balka and Arsalan Butt -- Personalized narrative diagnostic imaging: can it mediate patient-system dialogue? / Peter Pennefather and West Suhanic -- Using the Internet as a health intermediary: providing information and services to marginalized sexual communities / T.C. Sanders -- Between the clinic and the community: pathways for an emerging e-health policy in the remote First Nations of northwestern Ontario / Adam Fiser and Robert Luke -- We're all out there busting our guts, trying to do the best that we can for our people?: health intermediaries in Australian indigenous communities / Lyn Simpson, Michelle Hall and Susan Leggett -- Helpers, gatekeepers and the well-intentioned: the mixed blessings of HIV/AIDS info(r)mediation in rural Canada / Roma Harris [and others] -- Reflections on the middle space / Nadine Wathen, Roma Harris, and Sally Wyatt.
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"This book examines health information provision and seeking and the roles and interactions of human and technical actors that mediate this process. New empirical data from a number of clinical and community settings - including Aboriginal communities, libraries, rural areas, online communities and radiology clinics - are used to demonstrate a new concept termed 'health info(r)mediation'. Emerging socio-technical configurations are examined. The contributors are from a diverse range of academic and practice-oriented backgrounds, resulting in a critical and theoretically-based volume grounded in the practical realities of health information use in an increasingly networked world. Many of the chapters provide guidance for health, social service and information professionals charged with creating and/or providing health advice for citizens."--BOOK JACKET.