Digitised Health, Medicine and Risk

Herausgeber: Lupton, Deborah

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together contributions from social scientists who take critical approaches to digital health. The chapters focus on the ways in which risks are identified, publicised and managed across a range of technologies, including websites, online discussion forums, blogs, apps and biosensing devices. This book was originally published as a special issue of Health, Risk and Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138213623
• ISBN-10: 1138213624
• Artikelnr.: 47327045

Autorenporträt

Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra, Australia. Her research spans sociology and media and cultural studies. She is the author/co-author of 15 books and three edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Digitised health, medicine and risk Deborah Lupton Risk in
the design and development of apps 2. The gamification of risk: how health
apps foster self-confidence and why this is not enough 3. Threats and
thrills: pregnancy apps, risk and consumption 4. Asthma on the move: how
mobile apps remediate risk for disease management 5. Digital 'solutions' to
unhealthy lifestyle 'problems': the construction of social and personal
risks in the development of eCoaches Individual users and the construction
of risk 6. Digitalised health, risk and motherhood: politics of infant
feeding in post-colonial Hong Kong 7. 'Holy shit, didn't realise my
drinking was high risk': an analysis of the way risk is enacted through an
online alcohol and drug screening intervention 8. Stem cell miracles or
Russian roulette?: patients' use of digital media to campaign for access to
clinically unproven treatments Citizens' understanding of the impact of
digital technology on risk 9. Biosensing: how citizens' views illuminate
emerging health and social risks