Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice: the case of telepsychiatry
Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice: the case of telepsychiatry
New telecommunications technologies promise to profoundly change the spatial and temporal relationship between health professional and patient. This paper reports results from an ethnographic study of the introduction of a videophone or ‘telemedicine’ system intended to facilitate faster and more convenient referral of patients with anxiety and depression in primary care, to a community mental health team. We explore the reasons for contest over the telemedicine system in practice, contrasting professionals’ critique of the technology in play with a more fundamental problem: the extent to which the telecommunications system threatened deeply embedded professional constructs about the nature and practice of therapeutic relationships.
telemedicine, telepsychiatry, doctor–patient interaction, therapeutic relationships
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May, Carl
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Gask, Linda
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Atkinson, Theresa
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Ellis, Nicola
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Mair, Frances
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Esmail, Aneez
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June 2001
May, Carl
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Gask, Linda
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Atkinson, Theresa
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Ellis, Nicola
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Mair, Frances
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May, Carl, Gask, Linda, Atkinson, Theresa, Ellis, Nicola, Mair, Frances and Esmail, Aneez
(2001)
Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice: the case of telepsychiatry.
Social Science & Medicine, 52 (12), .
(doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00305-1).
Abstract
New telecommunications technologies promise to profoundly change the spatial and temporal relationship between health professional and patient. This paper reports results from an ethnographic study of the introduction of a videophone or ‘telemedicine’ system intended to facilitate faster and more convenient referral of patients with anxiety and depression in primary care, to a community mental health team. We explore the reasons for contest over the telemedicine system in practice, contrasting professionals’ critique of the technology in play with a more fundamental problem: the extent to which the telecommunications system threatened deeply embedded professional constructs about the nature and practice of therapeutic relationships.
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Published date: June 2001
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telemedicine, telepsychiatry, doctor–patient interaction, therapeutic relationships
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/163417
ISSN: 0277-9536
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Aneez Esmail
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