Jeannette Pols Knihy

Focusing on contemporary care practices for chronic disease patients in the Netherlands, this book investigates innovative approaches to understanding the values inherent in everyday life. It delves into how these practices can reshape perceptions of well-being and quality of life, offering insights into the intersection of health care and personal values.

In Care at a Distance: On the Closeness of Technology the autor demonstrates that actual care practices employing telecare do not resemble the hopes of the industry and policy makers, nor the nightmares of ethicists. The detailed ethnographic studies of pioneering telecare practices show how nurses and patients re-shape care when they start using t