Navigating Digital Health Landscapes

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information. It is the first book to conceptualise the internet as a landscape and the ways in which people navigate this digital world, including the complex entanglements between on and offline domains. It does so through a range of disciplinary perspectives from expert contributors across STS (science and technology studies), social anthropology, biomedicine, ethics and law, linguistics, social policy and computer scientists working in more technical aspects of tracking and visualising data and information on the internet. The book provides a unique and valuable contribution for those wishing to understand how digital technologies are affecting the design, implementation and use of digital systems to manage health information in different contexts.

Provides detailed analysis of the health information landscape, its geography, journeying through it, and how to 'travel safely' Offers a critical yet constructive perspective on the ways in which health information can be understood and managed Multidisciplinary in focus, bringing together experts working in STS, information science, biomedicine, law and ethics, anthropology, and social policy to build a broad framework which has both analytical depth and diverse implications for policy and practice Forms a rich and valuable resource for researchers, postgraduate students and practitioners (in health and social care) who have a strong interest in understanding how the digital health system is used and is reshaping the framing of and action on health needs and how these might be addressed now and in the future

Autorentext

Anna Lydia Svalastog is Professor of Psychosocial work at Østfold University College, Norway.
Sre ko Gajovi is Professor and Head of Department of Histology and Embryology at Zagreb University School of Medicine, and member of the Croatian Institute for Brain Research.
Andrew Webster is Emeritus Professor in the Sociology of Science and Technology at the University of York, UK and founder and member of the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU).

Klappentext

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information. It is the first book to conceptualise the internet as a landscape and the ways in which people navigate this digital world, including the complex entanglements between on and offline domains. It does so through a range of disciplinary perspectives from expert contributors across STS (science and technology studies), social anthropology, biomedicine, ethics and law, linguistics, social policy and computer scientists working in more technical aspects of tracking and visualising data and information on the internet. The book provides a unique and valuable contribution for those wishing to understand how digital technologies are affecting the design, implementation and use of digital systems to manage health information in different contexts.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part 1: Mapping the digital health landscape.- Chapter 2 Narrative Genre and Health in the Digital Society.- Chapter 3 Legal aspects of knowledge landscapes in healthcare.- Chapter 4 Integrative Bioethics and Knowledge Landscapes.- Chapter 5 Geography of Knowledge Landscapes.- Part 2: Journeys in the Knowledge Landscapes.- Chapter 6 Fostering 'digital subjectivity': an investigation of online patient experiences in Norway, The Netherlands and the Czech Republic.- Chapter 7 Traversing the online landscape: a remote Indigenous community perspective.- Chapter 8 Minute/s work - The participation of digital data objects in the conjuncture and disjuncture of policy and care.- Chapter 9 Facebook is my guerrilla: on ways in which social networks co-create illness experiences of persons with rare/atypical symptoms.- Chapter 10 eHealth applications in Knowledge Landscapes.- Chapter 11 Social Work, Children and the Digital Knowledge Landscape: new possibilities and challenges.- Part 3: Travelling safely.- Chapter 12 Information systems, big data and Knowledge Landscapes.- Chapter 13 Security and Safety in Knowledge Landscapes.- Chapter 14 The Exploration of Visual Analytics in Navigating Knowledge Landscapes.