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

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 cha...

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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)
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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.