Digital Health
Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 170
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Critical Approaches to Health
- EAN: 9781138123458
- Utgivelsesår: 2017
- Bidragsyter: Lupton, Deborah (University of Canberra, Australia. SHARP Professor, Leader, the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre.)
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 hea
