Mediating Health Information: The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
The Go-Betweens: Health, Technology and Info(r)mediation....Pages 1-17
‘Everybody’s Talking at Me’: Situating the Client in the Info(r)mediary Work of the Health Professions....Pages 18-37
Health Intermediaries? Positioning the Public Library in e-Health Discourse....Pages 38-55
To Filter or Not to Filter: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Librarians’ Use of Internet Filtering Techniques....Pages 56-77
Invisible Logic: The Role of Software as an Information Intermediary in Health Care....Pages 78-93
Personalized Narrative Diagnostic Imaging: Can it Mediate Patient-System Dialogue?....Pages 94-108
Using the Internet as a Health Intermediary: Providing Information and Services to Marginalized Sexual Communities....Pages 109-127
Between the Clinic and the Community: Pathways for an Emerging e-Health Policy in the Remote First Nations of Northwestern Ontario....Pages 128-149
‘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....Pages 150-166
Helpers, Gatekeepers and the Well-Intentioned: The Mixed Blessings of HIV/AIDS Info(r)mediation in Rural Canada....Pages 167-181
Reflections on the Middle Space....Pages 182-193
Back Matter....Pages 194-218