Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine

Sociological Perspectives
Herausgeber: Lupton, Deborah

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a number of different self-tracking techniques, emphasising the self-responsibility on which self-tracking relies, the educational value that it provides, and the way in which it can establish healthier social norms. It was originally published as a special issue of the Health Sociology Review.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138091085
• ISBN-10: 1138091081
• Artikelnr.: 57041464

Autorenporträt

Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design at the University of Canberra, Australia. She is the author/co-author of sixteen books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (2015) and The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Self-tracking, health and medicine 1. Health by numbers?
Exploring the practice and experience of datafied health 2. Social rhythms
of the heart 3. Clinical self-tracking and monitoring technologies:
negotiations in the ICT-mediated patient-provider relationship 4. Training
to self-care: fitness tracking, biopedagogy and the healthy consumer 5.
Harm reduction and the ethics of drug use: contemporary techniques of
self-governance 6. Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies:
towards a critical research agenda 7. Are we fit yet? English adolescent
girls' experiences of health and fitness apps