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

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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Lynch, Rebecca, editor (editor), Farrington, Conor, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
Colección:Health, Technology and Society.
Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38054048*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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. .

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