Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
ELLEN BALKA is Professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada, where she also serves as director of the Assessment of Technology in Context Design Lab. She is particularly interested in issues related to gender and inequality, and whether or not information technology contributes to or challenges gender and ethnic inequalities.
EILEEN GREEN is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Social and Policy Research (CSPR) in the School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teeside, UK. Her research interests focus around issues of social in/exclusion, especially gender issues. Her publications include Gendered by Design? Information Technology and Office Systems (co-edited), Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity (co-edited) and Youth, Risk and Leisure: Constructing Identities in Everyday Life (co-edited).
FLIS HENWOOD is Professor of Social Informatics in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK, where she heads the Social Informatics Research Unit (www.brighton.ac.uk/cmis/research/groups/siru). Her most recent work focuses on the implementation and use of information and communication technologies in health care.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Informing Gender? Health and Information Technologies in Context;
E. Balka, E. Green & F. HenwoodAll Change? Gender, Health and the Internet; F. Henwood & S. Wyatt
Gendered Identities and Caring: Health Intermediaries and Technology in Rural and Remote Queensland; L. Simpson, M. Hall & S. Leggett
Geeks Who Care: Gender, Caring and Community Access Computers; L. Bella
Cyber-Burdens: Emerging Imperatives in Womens Unpaid Care Work; R. Harris
Nursing Technologies? Gender, Care, and Skill in the Use of Patient Care Information Systems; Z. Sharman
Gender, Information Technology and Making Health Work: Unpacking Complex Relations at Work; E. Balka
Gendering Work? Women and Technologies in Health Care; P. Armstrong, H. Armstrong & K. Messing
Ungendering Womens Health: Information Systems and Occupational Health Indicators; G. Le Jeune
‘It Can See into Your Body: Gender, ICTs and and Decision Making about Midlife Women's Health; E. Green, F. Griffiths & A. Lindenmeyer
Conclusion: Reconfiguring the Gender, Technology and Health Relationship; E. Balka, E. Green & F. Henwood