Making mammograms mobile: Suggestions for a sociology of data mobility

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-19

  Coopmans, Catelijne ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

e Science; Immutable mobiles; Medical imaging; Mobility; Science and technology studies; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 33244490049     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180500519274     Document Type: Article

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