Digital Health
Subtitle: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
By: Deborah Lupton
Edition: First edition.
Series: Critical Approaches to Health
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781315648835
Subjects: Medical informatics; Telecommunication in medicine; Médecine; Informatique; Télémédecine; Telemedizin; E-Health; Quantified Self; Medizinische Informatik; Neue Technologie; Digitalisierung; Gesundheitswesen
Description: "The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, internationally renowned for her scholarship on the sociocultural and political aspects of medicine and health as well as digital technologies, addresses a range of compelling issues about the interests digital health represents, and its unintended effects on patients, doctors and how we conceive of public health and healthcare delivery. Bringing together social and cultural theory with empirical research, the book challenges apolitical approaches to examine the impact new technologies have on social justice, and the implication for social and economic inequalities. Lupton considers how self-tracking devices change the patient-doctor relationship, and how the digitisation and gamification of healthcare through apps and other software affects the way we perceive and respond to our bodies. She asks which commercial interests enable different groups to communicate more widely, and how the personal data generated from digital encounters are exploited. Considering the lived experience of digital health technologies, including their emotional and sensory dimensions, the book also assesses their broader impact on medical and public health knowledges, power relations and work practices. Relevant to students and researchers interested in medicine and public health across sociology, psychology, anthropology, new media and cultural studies, as well as policy makers and professionals in the field, this is a timely contribution on an important issue.?"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; Introduction; 1 Theoretical concepts; The political economy approach; Sociomaterialism; Foucauldian theory; The phenomenology of human embodiment; Theories of surveillance and privacy; 2 The digitised healthy citizen; Websites, online forums and social media; Telemedicine and patient self-care devices; Health and medical apps and wearable self-tracking devices; Persuasive computing and gamification; Patient engagement and the healthy citizen; 3 Digitised embodiment.; title: Imaging and imagining the body in medicineSocial media and self-representation; Digital self-tracking; 3D printed self-replicas and organs; Digitised cyborg assemblages; 4 Big digital health data; Patient data and health informatics; Big data for health promotion and public health; The commodification of personal health and medical data; Personal data and biovalue; Data privacy and security; Public understandings of data privacy and security issues; Corporate and policy makers' responses to data privacy and security; 5 The social structuring of digital health use; Digital social inequalities.; title: Cultural health beliefs and practicesPatterns of digital health technology use; Online search engines and websites; Telemedicine and electronic patient records; Health and medical apps and wearable devices; Personal health data and social disadvantage; 6 The lived experience of digital health; Social connection and emotion online; The emotional dimensions of digitised self-care; The pleasures and frustrations of self-tracking; Spaces of digital health and surveillance; 7 Digitised medical and health work; Digital technology use in health and medical work; Medical and health apps; Social media.; title: Doctors' views on lay people's use of digital healthRedefining and re-enacting healthcare practice; Digitised biomedicalisation; The deprofessionalisation of medicine?; Concluding comments; Key features of contemporary digital health; Social differences in digital health use and access; The dominance of the ideals of healthism and the responsible citizen; The datafication of human embodiment, medicine and public health; New ways of practising and conceptualising embodiment; The intersections of corporate, state and personal interests; Transformations in health and medical care.; title: The importance of materiality to the experience of digital health technologiesBolstering of medical authority and expertise; Directions for further research in critical digital health studies; References; Index.