Digital Health and the Embodying of Professionalism: Avatars as Health Professionals in Sweden

This paper explores virtual health professionals (VHPs), digital health technology software, in Swedish health care. The aim is to analyze how health professionalism is (re)negotiated through avatar embodiments of VHPs and to explore the informants’ notions of what a health professional is, behaves...

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Main Author: Johan Hallqvist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences 2019-03-01
Series:Professions and Professionalism
Online Access:https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/pp/article/view/2847