Screen LibraryDigital health and the gamification of life : how apps can promote a positive medicalization /
This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster...
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Emerald Publishing Limited,
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| Publisher Address: | Bingley : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster social discrimination. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 176 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-167) and index. |
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9781787543669 (hardback) : 1787543668 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | RA776 |
| CLC: | R1 |
| Call Number: | R1/M445 |
| Contents: | Self-tracking and the quantification of everyday life -- Getting things done : gaming and framing -- How apps foster medicalizaiton -- The self of the quantified self -- The dark side of digital health -- The positive medicalizaiton: digital meditation -- Exercise is (also) medicine -- Conclusion. |