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Digital Health - Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Digital Health - Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Approaches to Health
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The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to
many of the medical and public health challenges we face today.
This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the
techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health
phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, internationally renowned for her
scholarship on the sociocultural and political aspects of medicine
and health as well as digital technologies, addresses a range of
compelling issues about the interests digital health represents,
and its unintended effects on patients, doctors and how we conceive
of public health and healthcare delivery. Bringing together social
and cultural theory with empirical research, the book challenges
apolitical approaches to examine the impact new technologies have
on social justice, and the implication for social and economic
inequalities. Lupton considers how self-tracking devices change the
patient-doctor relationship, and how the digitisation and
gamification of healthcare through apps and other software affects
the way we perceive and respond to our bodies. She asks which
commercial interests enable different groups to communicate more
widely, and how the personal data generated from digital encounters
are exploited. Considering the lived experience of digital health
technologies, including their emotional and sensory dimensions, the
book also assesses their broader impact on medical and public
health knowledges, power relations and work practices. Relevant to
students and researchers interested in medicine and public health
across sociology, psychology, anthropology, new media and cultural
studies, as well as policy makers and professionals in the field,
this is a timely contribution on an important issue.
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