Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring Health and Technology Through Personal Medical Devices - Couverture rigide

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9781349952342: Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring Health and Technology Through Personal Medical Devices
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ISBN 10 : 1349952346 ISBN 13 : 9781349952342
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. 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. The burgeoning PMD field is advancing rapidly across multiple domains and disciplines - so rapidly that conceptual and empirical research and thinking around PMDs, and their clinical, social and philosophical implications, often lag behind new technical developments and medical interventions. This timely and original volume explores the significant and under-researched impact of personal medical devices on contemporary understandings of health and illness. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners of medicine, health, science and technology and social science.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr Rebecca Lynch is a Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
Dr Conor Farrington is a Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, UK.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1349952346
ISBN 13 
9781349952342
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
319
Éditeur
Lynch Rebecca, Farrington Conor
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9781349957699: Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices

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ISBN 10 :  1349957690 ISBN 13 :  9781349957699
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
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