Abstract
Tettegah, S. Y., & Garcia, Y. E. (Eds.). (2016).
Emotions, Technology, and Health.
London: Elsevier.
Sharon Y. Tettegah and Yolanda Evie Garcia's collection
Emotions, Technology, and Health
surveys how technologies "old" (e.g., photographs, the telephone) and "new" (e.g., mobile apps, robots, sensors) "mediate" patients' emotions within the context of processes, individuals, and spaces part of, adjacent to, or outside of the clinical healthcare setting (p. xvii). The collection also explores technology's mediation of practitioner and caregiver emotions. Overall, Tettegah and Garcia hope to expand the notion of "telehealth" beyond the remote or virtual delivery of health services to something that also encompasses "technology-based interventions in hospitals and other treatment settings that do not include distance as a necessary component" (p. xv).