Sendra Toset / Torkkola | Healthcare and Patient Communication in the Digital Era | Buch | 978-1-032-85733-6 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Health Communication

Sendra Toset / Torkkola

Healthcare and Patient Communication in the Digital Era

A Patienthood and Patient Perspective
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85733-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

A Patienthood and Patient Perspective

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Health Communication

ISBN: 978-1-032-85733-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd


This book provides a social and cultural theoretical framework for the digitalization of healthcare communication from a patient-centered perspective.

Through empirical case studies, the book outlines the experiences of patients as the digitalization of healthcare communication re-spatializes and re-temporalizes care and reconstructs patienthood and ill health. To demonstrate how changes in communication impacts health and illness, the book examines the digitalization process from three viewpoints. Firstly, it illustrates how the digitalization of illness enhances the availability of information and peer support, which increases patient empowerment. Secondly, it shows how the digitalization of disease transforms signs of disease in a patient’s body into electronic data, increases the distance between the disease and the patient, and enables diagnosis without a healthcare professional touching a patient’s body. Finally, it explains how the digitalization of sickness changes the power relations founded in health and reconfigures health citizenship.

Filling a theoretical gap in health communication scholarship, this book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in the field of Health Communication, Digital Communication, Communication Studies, and Health Sciences. The book also offers healthcare professionals new perspectives to respond to the increasing communicative duties arising from the digitalization of healthcare communication.

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Zielgruppe


Academic and Postgraduate

Weitere Infos & Material


1. Introduction  2. Communication and ill Health  3. Digitalization of illness: From paternalism to empowerment  4. From the medical gaze to the digital gaze  5. Digitalization of sickness: Renegotiating health citizenship  6. Patienthood and healthcare communication in the digital era


Sinikka Torkkola is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University, Finland. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Anna Sendra Toset is a Project Manager in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University, Finland.



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