The quantification of bodies in health : multidisciplinary perspectives /: multidisciplinary perspectives. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Btihaj Ajana, Joaquim Braga, Simone Guidi.
• Editors: Ajana, Btihaj; Braga, Joaquim; Guidi, Simone, 1984-
• Contents: INTRODUCTION; Btihaj Ajana, Joaquim Braga, and Simone Guidi PART I: Body Quantification and Subjectivity: Philosophical Perspectives Chapter 1. Body, Media and Quantification; Joaquim Braga Chapter 2. I Quantify, Therefore I Am: Quantified Self Between Hermeneutics of Self and Transparency; Lorenzo De Stefano Chapter 3. Quantified Care: Self-Tracking as a Technology of the Subject; Alessandro De Cesaris PART II: Body Quantification: Historical and Empirical Perspectives Chapter 4. Historical Context of Tracking Public Health and Quantifying Bodies: From the UK Welfare State to Digital Self-Care; Rachael Kent Chapter 5. Metrics of the Self: A Users' Perspective; Btihaj Ajana Chapter 6. Whose Bodies? Approaching the Quantified Menstruating Body Through a Feminist Ethnography; Amanda Karlsson PART III: Body Quantification and Mental Health Chapter 7. #Wellness or #Hellness: The Politics of Anxiety and the Riddle of Affect in Contemporary Psy-care; Ana Carolina Minozzo Chapter 8. Me Apps: Mental Health and the Smartphone; Zeena Feldman PART IV: Body Quantification and Smart Machines Chapter 9. The 'Smart' AI Trainer & her Quantified Body at Work; Phoebe V. Moore Chapter 10. Towards a Quanto-Qualitative Biological Engineering: The Case of the Neuroprosthetic Hand; Laura Corti.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 128.6; Human body; Quantitative research -- Methodology; Health; Patient self-monitoring
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800718852; 9781800718838
• Related ISBNs: 9781800718845
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