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The use of digital tracking technologies is a widespread
phenomenon. Millions of people around the world now track,
document, and analyse their physical activities, vital functions,
and daily habits through wearable devices, apps, and platforms. The
aim is to assess and improve health, productivity, and wellbeing.
The current Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the uptake of
tracking technologies. At the heart of this trend lies the
quantification of the body, deemed as a key element in medical
practice and personal self-care. While often couched in positive
promotional terms that highlight its value to users' mental,
emotional, and physical health, it is also raising a host of issues
and concerns that are at once ontological, ethical, political,
social, legal, economic, and aesthetic. The Quantification of
Bodies in Health aims to deepen understanding of this growing
phenomenon and of the role of self-tracking practices in everyday
life. It brings together established and emerging authors working
at the intersection of philosophy, sociology, history, psychology,
and digital culture, while bridging between philosophical and
empirical approaches. A timely topic of extreme relevance and
significance, The Quantification of Bodies in Health constitutes a
useful and unique companion for anyone interested in the study of
body quantification and self-tracking practices.
In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum
discuss the issue of care. The book covers both philosophical and
therapeutic studies and contains a three-pronged approach to
discussing the concepts of care: vulnerability, otherness, and
therapy. Above all, it is a matter of combining, in a plural form,
a path with multiple theoretical and conceptual bifurcations, but
which always point to an observation of society from the
perspective of human vulnerability.
This book provides new theoretical approaches to the subject of
virtuality. All chapters reflect the importance of extending the
analysis of the concept of "the virtual" to areas of knowledge
that, until today, have not been fully included in its
philosophical foundations. The respective chapters share new
insights on art, media, psychic systems and technology, while also
presenting new ways of articulating the concept of the virtual with
regard to the main premises of Western thought. Given its thematic
scope, this book is intended not only for a philosophical audience,
but also for all scientists who have turned to the humanities in
search of answers to their questions.
This book integrates studies on the thought of Bernard de
Mandeville and other philosophers and historians of Modern Thought.
The chapters reflect a rethinking of Mandeville's legacy and,
together, present a comprehensive approach to Mandeville's work.
The book is published on the occasion of the 300 years that have
passed since the publication of the Fable of the Bees. Bernard de
Mandeville disassembled the dichotomies of traditional moral
thinking to show that the outcomes of the social action emerge as
new, non-intentional effects from the combination of moral
opposites, vice and virtue, in such a form that they lose their
moral significance. The work of this great writer, philosopher and
physician is interwoven with an awareness of the paradoxical nature
of modern society and the challenges that this recognition brings
to an adequate perspective on the historical world of modernity.
This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and
philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of
quantification in understanding the medical body. Retracing current
trends and debates to examine the quantification of the body
throughout the early modern, modern and early contemporary age, the
authors contextualise important issues of both medical and
philosophical significance, with chapters focusing on the
quantification of temperaments and fluids, complexions, functions
of the living body, embryology, and the impact of quantified
reasoning on the concepts of health and illness. With insights
spanning from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, this
book provides a wide-ranging overview of attempts to ‘quantify’
the human body at various points. Arguing that medicine and
philosophy have been constantly in dialogue with each other, the
authors discuss how this provided a strategic opportunity both for
medical thought and philosophy to refine and further develop. Given
today’s fascination with the quantification of the body,
represented by the growing profusion of self-tracking devices
logging one’s sleep, diet or mood, this collection offers an
important and timely contribution to an emerging and
interdisciplinary field of study.
In this book, authors from a wide interdisciplinary spectrum
discuss the issue of care. The book covers both philosophical and
therapeutic studies and contains a three-pronged approach to
discussing the concepts of care: vulnerability, otherness, and
therapy. Above all, it is a matter of combining, in a plural form,
a path with multiple theoretical and conceptual bifurcations, but
which always point to an observation of society from the
perspective of human vulnerability.
This book provides new theoretical approaches to the subject of
virtuality. All chapters reflect the importance of extending the
analysis of the concept of "the virtual" to areas of knowledge
that, until today, have not been fully included in its
philosophical foundations. The respective chapters share new
insights on art, media, psychic systems and technology, while also
presenting new ways of articulating the concept of the virtual with
regard to the main premises of Western thought. Given its thematic
scope, this book is intended not only for a philosophical audience,
but also for all scientists who have turned to the humanities in
search of answers to their questions.
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