Beyond Techno-Utopia : : Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies / / MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.

• VerfasserIn: MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 pages)

The title for this special issue was devised as a direct challenge to the prevailing solutionist and instrumental approaches to the application of digital technologies to medicine and public health. In formulating the idea and title for the special issue, I wanted to inspire some provocative and challenging commentary and research on what I interpreted as a dominantly techno-utopian position on digital health. One important approach that I particularly wanted to encourage, and which I articulate in my own contribution to the special issue, is that which views digital health technologies as social, cultural and material artefacts which have political implications and embodied entanglements with humans and other nonhuman actors.- Deborah Lupton, Guest Editor.

Table of Contents

Visualized and interacted life: personal analytics and engagement with data doubles / Minna Ruckenstein -- The touch pad body: a generative transcultural digital device interrupting received ideas and practices in Aboriginal heath / Michael Christie and Helen Verran -- Understanding digital health as public pedagogy: a critical framework / Emma Rich and Andy Miah -- Practicing patienthood online: social media, chronic illness, and lay expertise / Collette Sosnowy -- "Maternal devices", social media and the self-management of pregnancy, mothering and child health / Sophia Alice Johnson -- Detecting the visible: the discursive construction of health threats in a syndromic surveillance system design / Baki Cakici and Pedro Sanches -- Managers' identification with and adoption of telehealthcare / Jane Hendy, Theopisti Chrysanthaki and James Barlow -- Exercise as labour: quantified self and the transformation of exercise into labour / Chris Till -- Apps as artefacts: towards a critical perspective on mobile health and medical apps / Deborah Lupton.