Digital Health

Sociological Perspectives
Herausgeber: Henwood, Flis; Marent, Benjamin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Digital technologies are increasingly being developed, implemented and used in the delivery of health and care, contributing to potentially disruptive changes in how healthcare is practised and experienced by health professionals, patients and those within their wider care networks. The papers in this collection explore how sociological theory, often at the intersection with science and technology studies (STS), can help us understand these changes. With contributions from international scholars in the field, papers in this collection explore diverse fields of healthcare (reproductive health, primary care, diabetes management, mental health) within which heterogenous technologies (health apps, mobile platforms, smart textiles, time-lapse imaging) are becoming increasingly embedded. They offer insights into the promissory discourses that constitute digital health and the ways in which knowledge, connectivity and power are re-configured in a range of situated health and care practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781119652717
• ISBN-10: 1119652715
• Artikelnr.: 58306266

Autorenporträt

Flis Henwood is Professor of Social Informatics at the University of Brighton, UK. She has a background in the sociology of health and science and technology studies and has published widely on the relationship between information, technology and care. Benjamin Marent is Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, UK. He has a background in sociology of health and is currently working in the area of digital health, working with developers and users to explore the complexity and ambivalence at play when digital technologies are embedded in practices of health and medicine.