Quantified Lives And Vital Data: Exploring Health And Technology Through Personal Medical Devices (health, Technology And Society)
by Rebecca Lynch /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book raises questions about the changing relationships
between technology, people and health. It examines the
accelerating pace of technological development and a general
shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships
are increasingly mediated through particular medical
technologies, drawn together by the authors as ‘personal medical
devices’ (PMDs) – devices that are attached to, worn by,
interacted with, or carried by individuals for the purposes of
generating biomedical data and carrying out medical interventions
on the person concerned. The burgeoning PMD field is advancing
rapidly across multiple domains and disciplines – so rapidly that
conceptual and empirical research and thinking around PMDs, and
their clinical, social and philosophical implications, often lag
behind new technical developments and medical interventions. This
timely and original volume explores the significant and
under-researched impact of personal medical devices on
contemporary understandings of health and illness. It will be a
valuable read for scholars and practitioners of medicine, health,
science and technology and social science.
This book raises questions about the changing relationships
between technology, people and health. It examines the
accelerating pace of technological development and a general
shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships
are increasingly mediated through particular medical
technologies, drawn together by the authors as ‘personal medical
devices’ (PMDs) – devices that are attached to, worn by,
interacted with, or carried by individuals for the purposes of
generating biomedical data and carrying out medical interventions
on the person concerned. The burgeoning PMD field is advancing
rapidly across multiple domains and disciplines – so rapidly that
conceptual and empirical research and thinking around PMDs, and
their clinical, social and philosophical implications, often lag
behind new technical developments and medical interventions. This
timely and original volume explores the significant and
under-researched impact of personal medical devices on
contemporary understandings of health and illness. It will be a
valuable read for scholars and practitioners of medicine, health,
science and technology and social science.
