| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The Quantification of Bodies in Healthaims to deepen understanding of the quantification of the body and of the role of self-tracking practices in everyday life. It brings together authors working at the intersection of philosophy, sociology, history, psychology, and digital culture. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Quantitative research -- Methodology.
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Patient self-monitoring.
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Health -- Physiological aspects.
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Human body.
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Sociology. |
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Social Science, Technology Studies. |
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Health -- Physiological aspects |
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Human body |
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Patient self-monitoring |
| Added Author |
Ajana, Btihaj, editor.
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Braga, Joaquim, editor.
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Guidi, Simone, 1984- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJp6cbVdVbYM6RMDR3RxjC
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| Other Form: |
Quantification of bodies in health. First edition. Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2022 9781800718845 (OCoLC)1261879294 |
| ISBN |
9781800718838 (PDF) |
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1800718837 (PDF) |
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9781800718852 (ePub) |
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1800718853 (ePub) |
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9781800718845 (hardback) |
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