From healing to witchcraft: on ritual speech and roboticization in the hospital.
Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), touted as a panacea by U.S. political actors ranging from Newt Gingrich to Barack Obama, is central to emerging forms of healthcare governance which Holmes et al.-in their critique of the institutionalization of magical thinking brought about by Orwellian tec...
| Publicado en: | Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 262 - 285 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2011
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