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.
Introduction: Informing Gender? Health and Information Technologies in Context; E.Balka, E.Green & F.Henwood
All 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 Women's 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 Women's 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
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. Her publications include Computer Networking: Spinsters on the Web, and Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future (co-edited).
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 Teesside, UK. Her research interests focus around issues of social in/exclusion, especially gender issues. Her publications include Women's Leisure, What Leisure? and the co-edited books, Gendered by Design? Information Technology and Office Systems, Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity, Consumption and Identity; Through the Wardrobe: Women's Relationships with their Clothes and Youth, Risk and Leisure: Constructing Identities in Everyday Life.
FLIS HENWOOD is Professor of Social Informatics in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK. She has published widely on gender and technology issues and on the social dynamics of e-Health. Publications include the co-edited collections Technology and In/Equality: Questioning the Information Society and Cyborg Lives?Women’s Technobiographies.
Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Informing Gender? Health and Information Technologies in Context; E.Balka, E.Green & F.Henwood
All 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 Women's 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 Women's 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
Authors
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. Her publications include Computer Networking: Spinsters on the Web, and Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future (co-edited).
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 Teesside, UK. Her research interests focus around issues of social in/exclusion, especially gender issues. Her publications include Women's Leisure, What Leisure? and the co-edited books, Gendered by Design? Information Technology and Office Systems, Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity, Consumption and Identity; Through the Wardrobe: Women's Relationships with their Clothes and Youth, Risk and Leisure: Constructing Identities in Everyday Life.
FLIS HENWOOD is Professor of Social Informatics in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK. She has published widely on gender and technology issues and on the social dynamics of e-Health. Publications include the co-edited collections Technology and In/Equality: Questioning the Information Society and Cyborg Lives?Women’s Technobiographies.
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