Objectives: What does the publicly available literature tell us about the attitudes of health
care staff to the development of information technology in practice, including the factors …

Background There has been an increased interest in the use of telemedical applications in
clinical practice in recent years. Considerable effort has been invested in trials and …

Telehealth, the delivery of health care services at a distance using information and
communications technology, has been slow to be adopted and difficult to sustain …

This widely researched study demonstrates convincingly that neither grandiose promises
nor nightmare scenarios have much to do with actual care practices employing telecare …

Understanding and evaluating the implementation of complex interventions in practice is an
important problem for healthcare managers and policy makers, and for patients and others …

Social theories of the body have exerted an enormous influence on the social sciences and
humanities in the past two decades. From being a subject of marginal academic interest, the …

Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and
Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare …

Hospitals are suffering from a critical challenge induced by the rapid spread of Coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19). Not only have patients been marginalized, but many clinicians …

Background Understanding how new clinical techniques, technologies and other complex
interventions become normalized in practice is important to researchers, clinicians, health …

Although patients are often absent in discourses on telemedicine, many telemonitoring
applications constitute a new medical practice in which patients are expected to play an …