Quantified Lives and Vital Data

Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the authors as ‘personal medical devices’ (PMDs) – devices that are attached to, worn by, interacted with, or carried by individuals for the purposes of generating biomedical data and carrying out medical interventions on the person concerned.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-05-18
Mått148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt416 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHealth, Technology and Society
Antal sidor298
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349957699

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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.