Digital healthcare and expertise : mental health and new knowledge practices / Claudia Egher.
"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 technologie...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Series: | Health, technology, and society,
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| 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? The book constitutes a critical and nuanced intervention into dominant discourses which approach the internet either as a quick technological fix or as a postmodern version of Pandora’s box, sowing distrust among people and threatening unified conceptualizations and organized forms of knowledge."--Publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 248 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9811691770 9789811691775 9811691789 9789811691782 |
| ISSN: | 2946-3378 |