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An Anthropological Approach to mHealth / edited by Charlotte Hawkins, Patrick Awondo and Daniel Miller
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: London : UCL Press, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (291 p.)ISBN:- 9781787354265
- 9781787354234
- Medical informatics
- Wireless communication systems in medical care
- Mobile hospitals
- Medical anthropology
- Mobile Health Units
- Transmission sans fil dans les services de santé
- Unités mobiles de soins
- Médecine - Informatique - Aspect social
- mobile hospitals
- Cultural
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- Public Health
- MEDICAL
- Popular Culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Media Studies
- Anthropology
- 610.285 23/eng/20241031
- R858
Contents:
Summary: Drawing from ten 16-month ethnographies in settings across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America, this book proposes a radically different anthropological approach to the development and dissemination of mobile health (mHealth), a rapidly growing sector in healthcarePPN: PPN: 1919909044Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
1 Introduction: health and care in the smartphone age -- Part I, Contextualising mHealth. 2 The smartphone and the 'Human Plus': an ethnographic review of mHealth practices in Shanghai ; 3 mHealth initiatives in Yaoundé: between 'good technology' and 'wrong messages' ; 4 Care, communication and Covid: notes from a Milan neighbourhood ; 5 Doctor Google will see you first -- Part II, Informing mHealth. 6 The healthcare system, the smartphone, and the human factor: oncological nurses using WhatsApp at a public hospital in Chile ; 7 An anthropological approach to telepsychotherapy: providing 'somewhere in-between' to go -- Part III, Designing mHealth. 8 From 'datafication' to socialisation: rethinking self-tracking in rural Japan ; 9 From menopause to hypertension: securing engagement ; 10 'I take care of what I eat to be in better health': using WhatsApp as a visual diary to uncover older Brazilians' relationship with food in São Paulo, Brazil ; 11 Conclusion: towards an ethnographic approach to mHealth.
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