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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lynch, Rebecca (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Farrington, Conor (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Health, Technology and Society
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• 1. Personal medical devices: People and technology in the context of health; Conor Farrington and Rebecca Lynch
• 2. Theorising personal medical devices;Steve Matthewman
• Part 1: Reconstructing the personal: Bodies, selves and PMDs
• 3. Biosensing networks: Sense making in consumer genomics and ovulation tracking; Mette Kragh-Furbo, Joann Wilkinson, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts, and Adrian Mackenzie
• 4. In/Visible personal medical devices: Insulin pumps as visual and material mediators between selves and others; Ava Hess
• 5. Redrawing boundaries around the self and the body: The case of self-quantifying technologies;Farzana Dudhwala
• Part 2: Reconstructing the medical: Data, ethics, discourse and PMDs
• 6. Data as transformational: Constrained and liberated bodies in an 'artificial pancreas' study; Conor Farrington
• 7. PMDs and the moral specialness of medicine: An analysis of the 'keepsake ultrasound'; Anna Smajdor and Andrea Stockl
• 8. Slippery slopes and Trojan horses: The construction of e-cigarettes as risky objects in public health debate; Rebecca Lynch
• Part 3: Reconstructing the device: Regulation, commercialisation, and design
• 9. Blood informatics: Negotiating the regulation and usership of personal devices for medical care and recreational self-monitoring; Alex Faulkner
• 10. Commercialising bodies: Action, subjectivity and the new corporate health ethic;Chris Till
• 11. Co-designing for care: Craft and wearable wellbeing Anthony Kent and Peta Bush
• 12. Quantified lives and vital data: Concluding remarks;Conor Farrington and Rebecca Lynch. .