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  1. Installing Telecare, Installing Users: Felicity Conditions for the Instauration of Usership.Miquel Domènech, Celia Roberts, Daniel López & Tomás Sánchez-Criado - 2014 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 39 (5):694-719.
    This article reports on ethnographic research into the practical and ethical consequences of the implementation and use of telecare devices for older people living at home in Spain and the United Kingdom. Telecare services are said to allow the maintenance of their users’ autonomy through connectedness, relieving the isolation from which many older people suffer amid rising demands for care. However, engaging with Science and Technology Studies literature on “user configuration” and implementation processes, we argue here that neither services nor (...)
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