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Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon empowering, or a new...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nafus, Dawn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2016]
Colección:MIT Press Ser.
Temas:
Biosensors.
Medical instruments and apparatus.
Confidential communications.
Biosensing Techniques
Equipment and Supplies
Monitoring, Physiologic > trends
Confidentiality
Biocapteurs.
Médecine > Appareils et instruments.
Secret professionnel.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Confidential communications
Biosensors
Medical instruments and apparatus
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications
INFORMATION SCIENCE/General
COMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon empowering, or a new form of social control? Who volunteers to enumerate bodily experiences, and who is forced to do so? Who interprets the resulting data? How does all this affect the relationship between medical practice and self care, between scientific and lay knowledge? Quantified examines these and other issues that arise when biosensing technologies become part of everyday life. The book offers a range of perspectives, with views from the social sciences, cultural studies, journalism, industry, and the nonprofit world. The contributors consider data, personhood, and the urge to self-quantify; legal, commercial, and medical issues, including privacy, the outsourcing of medical advice, and self-tracking as a "paraclinical" practice; and technical concerns, including interoperability, sociotechnical calibration, alternative views of data, and new space for design
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxxi, 243 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262334549
0262334542
9780262334532
0262334534
9780262334556
0262334550

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