Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies
Deborah Lupton (Ed.)
Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015 - 1 electronic resource (168 p.)
Open Access
The title for this special issue was devised as a direct challenge to the prevailing solutionist and instrumental approaches to the application of digital technologies to medicine and public health. In formulating the idea and title for the special issue, I wanted to inspire some provocative and challenging commentary and research on what I interpreted as a dominantly techno-utopian position on digital health. One important approach that I particularly wanted to encourage, and which I articulate in my own contribution to the special issue, is that which views digital health technologies as social, cultural and material artefacts which have political implications and embodied entanglements with humans and other nonhuman actors. - Deborah Lupton, Guest Editor
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03842-061-3 9783038420613 9783038420606
10.3390/books978-3-03842-061-3 doi
health and illness telemedicine digital health telehealth public health surveillance the body self-tracking digital technologies social media digital epidemiology
Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015 - 1 electronic resource (168 p.)
Open Access
The title for this special issue was devised as a direct challenge to the prevailing solutionist and instrumental approaches to the application of digital technologies to medicine and public health. In formulating the idea and title for the special issue, I wanted to inspire some provocative and challenging commentary and research on what I interpreted as a dominantly techno-utopian position on digital health. One important approach that I particularly wanted to encourage, and which I articulate in my own contribution to the special issue, is that which views digital health technologies as social, cultural and material artefacts which have political implications and embodied entanglements with humans and other nonhuman actors. - Deborah Lupton, Guest Editor
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03842-061-3 9783038420613 9783038420606
10.3390/books978-3-03842-061-3 doi
health and illness telemedicine digital health telehealth public health surveillance the body self-tracking digital technologies social media digital epidemiology