1st Edition
Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine Sociological Perspectives
Introduction: Self-tracking, health and medicine Deborah Lupton
1. Health by numbers? Exploring the practice and experience of datafied health Gavin J. D. Smith and Ben Vonthethoff
2. Social rhythms of the heart Mika Pantzar, Minna Ruckenstein and Veera Mustonen
3. Clinical self-tracking and monitoring technologies: negotiations in the ICT-mediated patient–provider relationship Enrico Maria Piras and Francesco Miele
4. Training to self-care: fitness tracking, biopedagogy and the healthy consumer Aristea Fotopoulou and Kate O’Riordan
5. Harm reduction and the ethics of drug use: contemporary techniques of self-governance Margaret Pereira and John Scott
6. Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies: towards a critical research agenda Emma Rich and Andy Miah
7. Are we fit yet? English adolescent girls’ experiences of health and fitness apps Annaleise Depper and P. David Howe
Biography
Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design at the University of Canberra, Australia. She is the author/co-author of sixteen books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (2015) and The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking (2016).
