[Air-l] Legitimacy of E-Health Medical Information

[Joao Vieira da Cunha]

Steve,

Joe Dumit at MIT is doing some work on that. He has a paper on Very Large 
Scale Conversations & Illness-based Social Movements. His email is 
dumit at MIT.EDU
and his webpage is symptom.mit.edu.

Hope this helps

Joao


At 03:51 PM 4/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Has anybody researched the area of legitimacy of medical information in
>online healthcare support communities? An example of this would be
>analyzing online cancer newsgroups to a) see the amount of medical
>information or advice that is disseminated, b) see who is providing
>advice or medical information, and c) review the responses and any
>actions that result from this advice.
>
>I'm beginning a small project on this and it would be great to know if
>anybody out there has done similar stuff or knows of any literature in
>the area.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Steve
>
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