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The quantification of bodies in health : multidisciplinary perspectives /
The Quantification of Bodies in Healthaims to deepen understanding of the quantification of the body and of the role of self-tracking practices in everyday life. It brings together authors working at the intersection of philosophy, sociology, history, psychology, and digital culture.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Btihaj Ajana, Joaquim Braga, and Simone Guidi
- Part I: Body quantification and subjectivity: Philosophical perspectives
- Chapter 1. Body, media and quantification / Joaquim Braga
- Chapter 2. I quantify, therefore i am: Quantified self between hermeneutics of self and transparency / Lorenzo De Stefano
- Chapter 3. Quantified care: Self-tracking as a technology of the subject / Alessandro De Cesaris
- Part II: Body quantification: Historical and empirical perspectives
- Chapter 4. Historical context of tracking public health and quantifying bodies: From the uk welfare state to digital self-care / Rachael Kent
- Chapter 5. Metrics of the self: A users' perspective / Btihaj Ajana
- Chapter 6. Whose bodies? Approaching the quantified menstruating body through a feminist ethnography / Amanda Karlsson
- Part III: Body quantification and mental health
- Chapter 7. #wellness or #hellness: The politics of anxiety and the riddle of affect in contemporary psy-care / Ana Carolina Minozzo
- Chapter 8. Me apps: Mental health and the smartphone / Zeena Feldman
- Part IV: Body quantification and smart machines
- Chapter 9. The 'smart' AI trainer her quantified body at work / Phoebe V. Moore
- Chapter 10. Towards a quanto-qualitative biological engineering: The case of the neuroprosthetic hand / Laura Corti.