Mediating Health Information

The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape
Author(s): N. Wathen, S. Wyatt, R. Harris
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9781349299386, 978-1349299386

Synopsis

Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This bookexamines the ways in whichordinary people locate and digest the amount of health information available today,focusing on the unexplored 'middle' place of human and technical mediators.