The quantification of bodies in health : multidisciplinary perspectives

The use of digital tracking technologies is a widespread phenomenon. Millions of people around the world now track, document, and analyse their physical activities, vital functions, and daily habits through wearable devices, apps, and platforms. The aim is to assess and improve health, productivity,...

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Other Authors Ajana, Btihaj (Editor), Braga, Joaqium (Editor), Guidi, Simone (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Subjects
Human body.
Human body and technology.
Social Science, Technology Studies.
Sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800718852
DOI10.1108/9781800718838
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 219 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Btihaj Ajana, Joaquim Braga, and Simone Guidi
  • Part I: Body quantification and subjectivity: Philosophical perspectives
  • Chapter 1. Body, media and quantification / Joaquim Braga
  • Chapter 2. I quantify, therefore i am: Quantified self between hermeneutics of self and transparency / Lorenzo De Stefano
  • Chapter 3. Quantified care: Self-tracking as a technology of the subject / Alessandro De Cesaris
  • Part II: Body quantification: Historical and empirical perspectives
  • Chapter 4. Historical context of tracking public health and quantifying bodies: From the uk welfare state to digital self-care / Rachael Kent
  • Chapter 5. Metrics of the self: A users' perspective / Btihaj Ajana
  • Chapter 6. Whose bodies? Approaching the quantified menstruating body through a feminist ethnography / Amanda Karlsson
  • Part III: Body quantification and mental health
  • Chapter 7. #wellness or #hellness: The politics of anxiety and the riddle of affect in contemporary psy-care / Ana Carolina Minozzo
  • Chapter 8. Me apps: Mental health and the smartphone / Zeena Feldman
  • Part IV: Body quantification and smart machines
  • Chapter 9. The 'smart' AI trainer & her quantified body at work / Phoebe V. Moore
  • Chapter 10. Towards a quanto-qualitative biological engineering: The case of the neuroprosthetic hand / Laura Corti.

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