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Sensing Health: Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies by Mikki Kressbach
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- ISBN-13
- 9780472056590
- Book Title
- Sensing Health
- ISBN
- 9780472056590
- Subject Area
- Medical, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Sensing Health : Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Public Health, Media Studies, Women's Studies
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Series
- Digital Culture Bks.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 302 Pages
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In the age of Apple Watches and Fitbits, the concept of "health" emerges through an embodied experience of a digital health device or platform, not simply through the biomedical data it provides. Sensing Health: Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies analyzes popular digital health technologies as aesthetic experiences to understand how these devices and platforms have impacted the way individuals perceive their bodies, behaviors, health, and well-being. By tracing design alongside embodied experiences of digital health, Kressbach shows how these technologies aim to quantify, track and regulate the body, while at the same time producing moments that bring the body's affordances and relationship to the fore. This mediated experience of "health" may offer an alternative to biomedical definitions that define health against illness. To capture and analyze digital health experiences, Kressbach develops a method that combines descriptive practices from Film and Media Studies and Phenomenology. After examining the design and feedback structures of digital health platforms and devices, the author uses her own first-person accounts to analyze the impact of the technology on her body, behaviors, and perception of health. Across five chapters focused on different categories of digital health--menstrual trackers, sexual wellness technologies, fitness trackers, meditation and breathing technologies, and posture and running wearables-- Sensing Health demonstrates a method of analysis that acknowledges and critiques the biomedical structures of digital health technology while remaining attentive to the lived experiences of users. Through a focus on the intersection of technological design and experience, this method can be used by researchers, scholars, designers, and developers alike.
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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10
047205659x
ISBN-13
9780472056590
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19061947302
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
302 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Sensing Health : Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies
Publication Year
2024
Subject
Public Health, Media Studies, Women's Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical, Social Science
Series
Digital Culture Bks.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2023-035008
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" Sensing Health examines digital health technologies coming from a variety of fields (wellbeing, fitness, health, etc.) to explore how they impact individual's understanding and perception of health and body. Kressbach's methodology, which is grounded in the descriptive methods associated with the disciplines of film and media studies, enables her to explore aesthetic and multisensorial aspects crucial to digital health technologies design and use, aspects neglected by scholarly literature." --Silvia Casini, University of Aberdeen, King's College, "We are surrounded by technologies that measure our bodies, providing us data that aims to help us improve our health. Many of these technologies objectify our bodies, delivering reductionist accounts of complex biological processes. In Sensing Health , Kressbach shows that there is a potential for other technologies and designs that cater to the actual messiness, corporeality, secretions, and overall complexities of our changing bodies, instead of concealing or simplifying them." -Kristina HÖÖk, KTH Royal Institute of Technology " Sensing Health examines digital health technologies coming from a variety of fields (wellbeing, fitness, health, etc.) to explore how they impact individual's understanding and perception of health and body. Kressbach's methodology, which is grounded in the descriptive methods associated with the disciplines of film and media studies, enables her to explore aesthetic and multisensorial aspects crucial to digital health technologies design and use, aspects neglected by scholarly literature." -Silvia Casini, University of Aberdeen, King's College, "We are surrounded by technologies that measure our bodies, providing us data that aims to help us improve our health. Many of these technologies objectify our bodies, delivering reductionist accounts of complex biological processes. In Sensing Health , Kressbach shows that there is a potential for other technologies and designs that cater to the actual messiness, corporeality, secretions, and overall complexities of our changing bodies, instead of concealing or simplifying them." --Kristina Höök, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Dewey Decimal
613/.04244
Lc Classification Number
Ra776.95.K74 2024
Table of Content
Introduction: Sensing Health Describing (Digital) Health Defining Health Organization Note on Language Chapter 1: Life as Cycle: The Datafication of Menstrual Health Managing Excess and Excretion Biomedical Cycles Life as Cycle Rethinking Menstrual Management Chapter 2: Pleasure Points: Sextech and Measuring Sexual Wellness Quantifying Sex and Pleasure Selling Sexual Wellness Optimizing Pleasure The Purpose of Pleasure? Chapter 3: Every Step Counts: Analyzing Fitness Tracking Technologies Health as/and Fitness Measure and Improve Feeling Fit? Chapter 4: Meditation and Breathing Technologies and the Biomedicalization of Wellness From Health to Wellbeing The Relaxation Response and the Rise of Evidence-Based Wellness "Making the intangible tangible" From Wellbeing to Feeling Health Chapter 5: Bodies in Action: Measuring Movement and Intensity "Make your body the sexiest outfit you'll ever own" Feedback on Form Health as "Homelike Being-in-the-World" Bibliography
Copyright Date
2024
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