The phenomenon of digital health has emerged as a key dimension of contemporary
healthcare policy and delivery in many countries. This review article focuses on one aspect …

The digitalization of healthcare work has gained center stage in academic debates spanning
disciplines as diverse as medicine, sociology and STS. The different analytical interests and …

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and
public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response …

Understanding the processes by which practices become routinely embedded in everyday
life is a long-standing concern of sociology and the other social sciences. It has important …

This article contributes to re-specifying a number of the phenomena of interest to
organizational studies in terms of patterns of socio-material practices and their effects. It …

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

Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of 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 …

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

'Warm care'is often contrasted with 'cold technology'. But is this a meaningful opposition?
Much research into healthcare technology frames the relation between humans and their …