... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Research and development Personal health Information and communication technologies User‐interfaces Health Technology Development and Use is about the formation and diffusion of healthcare technologies and their social implications...

... become a dominant aspect of social life”. The book attempts to go further than making a critique of mainstream IS research and technocratic policy. It argues for the need for launching “informatics” as a field of study of information, communication and technology of “essentially social character...