Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies
By Deborah Lupton. 2013
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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction
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Citations in the corpus
- Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary. (2015, background): “Health and wellbeing become represented by certain numbers that are collected by one's self-tracking device, game app or sensor-embedded smart object (Lupton, 2012, 2013, 2014b).”
- Reliability and Validity of Commercially Available Wearable Devices for Measuring Steps, Energy Expenditure, and Heart Rate: Systematic Review (2020, background): “Research examining consumer wearable devices, such as watches, pendants, armbands, and other accessories, is associated with various labels including Quantified Self [7] and mobile health (mHealth) [8].”
- Self-tracking cultures: towards a sociology of personal informatics (2014, background): “Self-tracking discourses and cultures can be moralistic and judgemental, building on wider and long-established ideas about personal responsibility for good health, physical fitness and productivity (Lupton, 1995a, 2012a, 2012b, 2013b).”
- Quantified sex: a critical analysis of sexual and reproductive self-tracking using apps (2015, background): “…future in which digital technologies are able to promote ‘patient engagement’ and encourage individuals to monitor their bodies in the interests of preventive medicine and self-care, thus not only improving health and healthcare but reducing healthcare expenditure (Levina 2012; Lupton 2012, 2013a).”
- Data for life: Wearable technology and the design of self-care (2016, background): “…care and preventative health ” in which the burden of responsibility moves from the state to citizens who are “ ready and willing to actively engage in their own healthcare and promote their own health ” (p. 266; see also Lupton, 2013b, p. 28; Lupton, 2012, 2014, 2016; Oxlund, 2012; Till, 2014).”
- Visualized and Interacted Life: Personal Analytics and Engagements with Data Doubles (2014, background): “This article approaches personal analytics through two interrelated themes that have been identified as formative in this field: visibility and self-optimization [3–7].”