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Title | Quantified: biosensing technologies in everyday life |
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Other creators | Nafus Dawn |
Organization | IEEE Xplore (Online Service); MIT Press |
Imprint | Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England: MIT Press, 2016 |
Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств; Общая коллекция |
Subjects | Биосенсоры; Медицинские приборы, аппараты и инструменты; здравоохранение; инновации; MIT Press eBooks Library |
UDC | 615.47:577.1 |
Document type | Other |
File type | Other |
Language | English |
Rights | Доступ по паролю из сети Интернет (чтение, печать) |
Record key | 7580015 |
Record create date | 1/18/2017 |
Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon empowering, or a new form of social control? Who volunteers to enumerate bodily experiences, and who is forced to do so? Who interprets the resulting data? How does all this affect the relationship between medical practice and self care, between scientific and lay knowledge? Quantified examines these and other issues that arise when biosensing technologies become part of everyday life. The book offers a range of perspectives, with views from the social sciences, cultural studies, journalism, industry, and the nonprofit world. The contributors consider data, personhood, and the urge to self-quantify; legal, commercial, and medical issues, including privacy, the outsourcing of medical advice, and self-tracking as a "paraclinical" practice; and technical concerns, including interoperability, sociotechnical calibration, alternative views of data, and new space for design.
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