The medicalization of cyberspace
By: Andy Miah and Emma Rich.
Contributors: Rich, Emma, 1977-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780415393645; 9780415376228; 9780203931134
Subjects: Medical telematics; Medical informatics; Social medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medicalization in cyberspace; title: Cybermedical bodies; title: Cybermedicine & reliability discourse; title: Virtual governance of health behaviour; title: Cyberpatients, illness narratives and medicalization; title: Partial prostitution; title: Biological property rights in cyberspace; title: The online pro-ana movement; title: The bioethics of cybermedicalization; title: Conclusion: after-cyborgs or artificial life.