Quantified Lives and Vital Data Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lynch, Rebecca (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Farrington, Conor (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Health, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Health promotion.; Health informatics.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Medical Sociology.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Health Informatics.; Science and Technology Studies.

This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technol...