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Digital health and the gamification of life : how apps can promote a positive medicalization /
This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Auteurs principaux: | , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Bingley :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2018.
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| Édition: | First edition. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster social discrimination. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 178754365X 9781787543652 9781787543676 1787543676 |