Sociological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites you to the autumn cycle of SOCIOTÉKA
Telemedicine and socio-technical practices. Insights from the results of a National Project on Telemedicine implementation in Italy
Barbara Sena
The seminar will focus on telemedicine, examining its recent developments, potential and obstacles in the context of digital health in the post-pandemic era. The lecture will take a multidisciplinary approach, combining the sociology of health and medicine with science and technology studies (STS). The presentation will highlight key findings from a two-year mixed-methods research project funded by the Italian government through post-Covid-19 European funds. This project aimed to study the state of telemedicine services in Italy, considering their legal, professional, and organisational implementation within various healthcare settings in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Barbara Sena is Associate Professor of General Sociology (SPS/07) at the Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communication of the University of Bergamo, where she currently teaches General Sociology and Sociology of Science. She is member of the board of the PhD in Health and Longevity at the same University, member of the Board of the Sociology of Health and Medicine Section of the Italian Sociological Association (AIS) (2023- 2026), and Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Sociology - Medical Sociology Session. Her research interests range from issues related to health policies, digital health, nursing, interprofessional care, vaccination hesitancy, palliative care and the study of research methods applied to health contexts.
Her recent publications include: Spirituality and palliative care: international models and new perspectives’ (2025, Frontiers in Sociology); ‘The silent health social movement of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine in political contention with Western evidence-based biomedicine’ (2024, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia); 'Case studies in social research' (2023, Routledge); ‘'Supporting ethical end-of-life care during pandemic: Palliative care team perspectives' (2023, Nursing Ethics); 'Looking at Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy through a macro perspective. A comparative study of Italy, Poland and Portugal' (2022, Partecipazione e Conflitto).
Seminar will be held in English.
No registration is needed.
