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Author Egher, Claudia, author

Title Digital healthcare and expertise : mental health and new knowledge practices / Claudia Egher
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 248 pages) : illustrations
Series Health, technology and society, 2946-3378
Health, technology, and society, 2946-3378
Contents Chapter 1: Studying Expertise Online -- Chapter 2: Epistemic inroads from the asylum to digital psychiatry -- Chapter 3: The drama of expertise about bipolar disorder online -- Chapter 4: Tactical Re-appraisals and Digitally Informed Hypotheses About the Treatment for Bipolar Disorder -- Chapter 5: Online Expert Mediators: Expanding Interactional Expertise -- Chapter 6: Digital Biocommunities: Solidarity and Lay Expertis About Bipolar Disorder -- Chapter 7: Expertise in the Age of Big Data
Summary This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platforms by combining insights from STS, medical sociology and media studies. It addresses topical questions, including: How do different stakeholders engage with online technologies to perform expertise about bipolar disorder? How does the use of the internet for processes of knowledge evaluation and production allow for people diagnosed with bipolar disorder to reposition themselves in relation to medical professionals? How do cultural markers shape the online performance of expertise about bipolar disorder? And what individualizing or collectivity-generating effects does the internet have in relation to the performance of expertise? Claudia Egher is a postdoctoral researcher in the department Health, Ethics and Society at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University. Her research interests include the digitalization of (mental) healthcare, the social and cultural dimensions of emerging science and technologies, and innovative participatory practices through which citizens engage in matters of shared concern in (mental) healthcare
Notes Includes index
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Subject Medical informatics.
Telecommunication in medicine.
Medical care -- Technological innovations
Mental health services.
Mental Health Services
Medical care -- Technological innovations
Medical informatics
Mental health services
Telecommunication in medicine
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789811691782
9811691789