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Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine - Sociological Perspectives (Paperback)
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Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine - Sociological Perspectives (Paperback)
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Self-tracking practices are part of many health and medical
domains. The introduction of digital technologies such as
smartphones, tablet computers, apps, social media platforms,
dedicated patient support sites and wireless devices for medical
monitoring has contributed to the expansion of opportunities for
people to engage in self-tracking of their bodies and health and
illness states. The contributors to this book cover a range of
self-tracking techniques, contexts and geographical locations:
fitness tracking using the wearable Fitbit device in the UK;
English adolescent girls' use of health and fitness apps; stress
and recovery monitoring software and devices in a group of healthy
Finns; self-monitoring by young Australian illicit drug users; an
Italian diabetes self-care program using an app and web-based
software; and 'show-and-tell' videos uploaded to the Quantified
Self website about people's experiences of self-tracking. Major
themes running across the collection include the emphasis on
self-responsibility and self-management on which self-tracking
rationales and devices tend to rely; the biopedagogical function of
self-tracking (teaching people about how to be both healthy and
productive biocitizens); and the reproduction of social norms and
moral meanings concerning health states and embodiment (good health
can be achieved through self-tracking, while illness can be avoided
or better managed). This book was originally published as a special
issue of the Health Sociology Review.
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