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    Mediating health information : the go-betweens in a changing socio-technical landscape / edited by C. Nadine Wathen, Sally Wyatt, Roma Harris.

    • Title:Mediating health information : the go-betweens in a changing socio-technical landscape / edited by C. Nadine Wathen, Sally Wyatt, Roma Harris.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Wathen, C. Nadine, 1968-
      Wyatt, Sally.
      Harris, Roma M.
    • Published/Created:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Communication in medicine.
      Health education.
      Medical informatics.
    • Medical Subjects: Consumer Health Information--methods.
      Consumer Health Information--trends.
      Health Personnel.
      Information Services--trends.
      Information Systems--trends.
      Librarians.
    • Description:xviii, 218 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
    • Series:Health, technology, and society.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-212) and index.
    • ISBN:9780230201200 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0230201202 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • Contents:1. Go-Betweens: Health, Technology and Info(r)mediation / Sally Wyatt, Roma Harris and Nadine Wathen
      2. 'Everybody's Talking at Me': Situating the Client in the Info(r)mediary Work of the Health Professions / Leslie Bella, Roma Harris, Debbie Chavez, Jana Fear and Penny Gill
      3. Health Intermediaries? Positioning the Public Library in e-Health Discourse / Flis Henwood, Roma Harris, Samantha Burdett and Audrey Marshall
      4. To Filter or Not to Filter: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Librarians' Use of Internet Filtering Techniques / Elaine Gibson and Jan Sutherland
      5. Invisible Logic: The Role of Software as an Information Intermediary in Health Care / Ellen Balka and Arsalan Butt
      6. Personalized Narrative Diagnostic Imaging: Can it Mediate Patient-System Dialogue? / Peter Pennefather and West Suhanic
      7. Using the Internet as a Health Intermediary: Providing Information and Services to Marginalized Sexual Communities / T. C. Sanders
      8. Between the Clinic and the Community: Pathways for an Emerging e-Health Policy in the Remote First Nations of Northwestern Ontario / Adam Fiser and Robert Luke
      9. 'We're All Out there Busting Our Guts, Trying to Do the Best that We Can for Our People': Health Intermediaries in Australian Indigenous Communities / Lyn Simpson, Michelle Hall and Susan Leggett
      10. Helpers, Gatekeepers and the Well-intentioned: The Mixed Blessings of HIV/AIDS Info(r)mediation in Rural Canada / Roma Harris, Tiffany Veinot, Leslie Bella, Irving Rootman and Judith Krajnak
      11. Reflections on the Middle Space / Nadine Wathen, Roma Harris and Sally Wyatt.
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