The digitally engaged patient: Self-monitoring and self-care in the digital health era
By Deborah Lupton. 2013
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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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Citations in the corpus
- 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).”
- Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare. (2017, background): “It does not only lead to potentially better quality and a larger quantity of information being obtained in healthcare but also to the opportunity for self-care (10).”
- 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).”
- 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).”
- Exercise as Labour: Quantified Self and the Transformation of Exercise into Labour (2014, neutral): “In the still relatively sparse published material, the theoretical implications of the use of such methods of digital self-analysis has been explored in relation to issues of surveillance and self-surveillance [19–21] and notions of “gamification” [22].”