Exploring and analysing the social and cultural impact of new technologies, this book examines the societal relevance of new technologies of care and the manner in which technological innovations configure and reconfigure institutionalized spaces of care. It provides the latest practice-oriented qualitative research and innovative conceptual discussions of how health and health care systems are currently dealing with complex transformations and varied reforms.

Chapter 1 New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care '¿ An Introduction, Michael Schillmeier, Miquel Domènech; Chapter 1a Cracks in the Door? Technology and the Shifting Topology of Care, Christine Milligan, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts; Chapter 2 The Securitization of Care Spaces: Lessons from Telecare, Daniel López; Chapter 3 Exploring the Affordances of Telecare-related Technologies in the Home; Chapter 4 Clutter Moves in Old Age Homecare, Peter A. Lutz; Chapter 5 Homespace or Workspace? The Use of Multiple Assistive Technologies in Private Dwellings, Hanne Lindegaard, SØsser Brodersen; Chapter 6 Electric Snakes and Mechanical Ladders? Social Presence, Domestic Spaces, and Human-Robot Interactions, Mark Paterson; Chapter 7 Technology and Good Dementia Care: An Argument for an Ethics-in-Practice Approach, Hilde Thygesen, Ingunn Moser; Chapter 8 Social Remembering as an Art of Living: Analysis of a 'Reminiscence Museum', Elena Bendien, Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey; Chapter 9 A Pillow Squirrel and its Habitat: Patients, a Syndrome, and their Dwelling(s), B. Kraeftner, J. Kroell, G. Ramsebner, L. Peschta, I. Warner; Chapter 10, Alexandra Hillman, Joanna Latimer, Paul White;

Michael Schillmeier is professor for sociology at the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK Miquel Domènech lectures in the Department of Social Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain