Living Data

Making Sense of Health Biosensing

von Adrian Mackenzie, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts

208 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

As individuals increasingly seek ways of accessing, understanding and sharing data about their own bodies, this book offers a critique of the popular claim that 'more information' equates to 'better health'. In a study that redefines the public, academic and policy related debates around health, bodies, information and data, the authors consider the ways in which the phenomenon of self-diagnosis has created alternative worlds of knowledge and practises which are often at odds with professional medical advice. With a focus on data that concerns significant life changes, this book explores the potential challenges related to people's changing relationships with traditional health systems as access to, and control over, data shifts.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie
• ISBN: 9781529207507
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2019
• Größe: 201 x 130 mm
• Verlag: Bristol University Press