Alan Petersen

Digital Health and Technological Promise (eBook, PDF)

A Sociological Inquiry

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a sociological perspective on digital health, highlighting the impacts of digital technologies on our understandings of health and approaches to healthcare. It will provide an invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the socio-cultural and politico-economic implications of digital health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351780407
• Artikelnr.: 56832980

Autorenporträt

Alan Petersen is Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, at Monash University in Melbourne. He researches and publishes in the sociology of health and medicine, science and technology studies, and gender studies. His recent books include Hope in Health: The Socio-Politics of Optimism (Palgrave, 2015) and Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope (Palgrave, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Digital health', technology and promise
2. 'Digital health' and networking of the self
3. The emergent algorithmic medicine
4. The digital healthcare economy
5. 'Digital health', its promises and perils