Quantified Lives and Vital Data - Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Health, Technology and Society
Release date:	October 2017
First published:	2017
Editors:	Rebecca Lynch • Conor Farrington
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	298
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-95234-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Health & safety aspects of computing Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Biomedical engineering > Orthotics Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Biomedical engineering > Prosthetics
LSN:	1-349-95234-6
Barcode:	9781349952342

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