Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine: Sociological Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367321864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 118 str.

Deborah Lupton

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).