Digital health and the gamification of life : how apps can promote a positive medicalization

• Main Authors: Maturo, Antonio, (Author), Moretti, Veronica, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Subjects: Health > Data processing.; Social Science > Sociology > General.; Medical sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787543652 (e-book); 9781787543676 (ePUB)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) ; cm

This book analyses the role of technology in the realm of health. Health apps can promote medicalization and the idea that health is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one. The authors base their arguments around three theoretical frameworks. Quantification: the growing importa...