Farrington, Conor
Quantified Lives and Vital Data
Part I. Introduction
1. Personal Medical Devices: People and Technology in the Context of Health
Conor Farrington, Rebecca Lynch
2. Theorising Personal Medical Devices
Steve Matthewman
Part II. Reconstructing the Personal: Bodies, Selves and PMDs
3. Biosensing Networks: Sense-Making in Consumer Genomics and Ovulation Tracking
Mette Kragh-Furbo, Joann Wilkinson, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts, Adrian Mackenzie
4. In/Visible Personal Medical Devices: The Insulin Pump as a Visual and Material Mediator Between
Ava Hess
5. Redrawing Boundaries Around the Self: The Case of Self-Quantifying Technologies
Farzana Dudhwala
Part III. Reconstructing the Medical: Data, Ethics, Discourse and PMDs
6. Data as Transformational: Constrained and Liberated Bodies in an ‘Artificial Pancreas’ Study
Conor Farrington
7. PMDs and the Moral Specialness of Medicine: An Analysis of the ‘Keepsake Ultrasound’
Anna Smajdor, Andrea Stöckl
8. Slippery Slopes and Trojan Horses: The Construction of
Rebecca Lynch
Part IV. Reconstructing the Device: Regulation, Commercialisation, and Design
9. Blood Informatics: Negotiating the Regulation andUsership ofPersonal Devices forMedical Care andRecreational Self-monitoring
Alex Faulkner
10. Commercialising Bodies: Action, Subjectivity and the New Corporate Health Ethic
Christopher Till
11. Co-Designing for Care: Craft and Wearable Wellbeing
Anthony Kent, Peta Bush
Part V. Conclusion
12. Quantified Lives and Vital
Conor Farrington, Rebecca Lynch
Keywords: Social Sciences, Medical Sociology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Informatics, Science and Technology Studies
- Editor
- Farrington, Conor
- Lynch, Rebecca
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Health, Technology and Society
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781349952359
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-95234-2