Living data : making sense of health biosensing / Celia Roberts, Adrian Mackenzie, Maggie Mort ; with Theresa Atkinson, Mette Kragh-Furbo, Joann Wilkinson

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Roberts, Celia, 1968- [VerfasserIn]

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Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)ISBN:

9781529207514
9781529207538
9781529207545

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Additional physical formats: 9781529207507. | Erscheint auch als: LIVING DATA. Druck-Ausgabe [Place of publication not identified] : BRISTOL UNIV PR, 2019LOC classification:

R857.B54

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Summary: Citizens' (not patients' or service users') perspectives on sensor-based home careConclusions; Conclusion: What Might Biosensing Do?; Health biosensing policy and practice; Scenario: the Browns from Preston: an 'ordinary family'; Act 1: making sense of genetic data; Act 2: making sense of fertility monitoring; Appendix; Scenario: the Browns from Preston: an 'ordinary family'; Act 1: making sense of genetic data; Act 2: making sense of fertility monitoring; References; IndexSummary: Front Cover; Living Data; Copyright; Table of contents; List of Tables, Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: What Does Biosensing Do?; Layers of biosensing practice; Biosensors multiply; The biosensing health platform economies of 'my' and 'our' data; The platform alignments of biosensing; Cultural logics of biosensing; Summary of the argument: sensing, biology-medicine and platforms; Overview of chapters; 1 Fertility Biosensing; 'Femtech' and the new fertility; Citizens talking ovulation; Women's use of fertility biosensing; Is fertility tracking feminist biosensing?Summary: Our (reproductive) bodies, our data?Critical experiments in fertility biosensor design; Conclusions; 2 Biosensing Stress; What is stress?; Configuring stress; Stress surveillance?; The collective politics of stress; Conclusions; 3 Platform Biosensing and Post-Genomic Relatedness; Understanding the tests; Share and compare?; The value of n = 1 versus n = many; Radical data dividuation; Conclusions; 4 Biosensing in Old Age; Self-tracking or dys-tracking?; The struggle to make sense of falls and telecare data; Researching telecare in useSummary: This book critiques the popular claim that 'more information' equates to 'better health' and explores the potential challenges related to people's changing relationships with traditional health systems as access to, and control over data shiftsPPN: PPN: 1685641709Package identifier: Produktsigel: BSZ-4-NLEBK-KAUB | ZDB-4-NLEBK

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