Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices

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Rebecca Lynch Conor Farrington

Quantified Lives and Vital Data

Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices

Rebecca Lynch, Conor Farrington

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Palgrave Macmillan
18 October 2017

Public health & preventive medicine; Medical sociology; Orthotics; Prosthetics; Health & safety aspects of computing

Series: Health, Technology and Society

This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the authors as ‘personal medical devices’ (PMDs) – devices that are attached to, worn by, interacted with, or carried by individuals for the purposes of generating biomedical data and carrying out medical interventions on the person concerned. The burgeoning PMD field is advancing rapidly across multiple domains and disciplines – so rapidly that conceptual and empirical research and thinking around PMDs, and their clinical, social and philosophical implications, often lag behind new technical developments and medical interventions. This timely and original volume explores the significant and under-researched impact of personal medical devices on contemporary understandings of health and illness. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners of medicine, health, science and technology and social science.

Edited by: Rebecca Lynch, Conor Farrington
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 5.157kg
ISBN: 9781349952342
ISBN 10: 1349952346
Series: Health, Technology and Society
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 18 October 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Rebecca Lynch is a Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Dr Conor Farrington is a Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, UK.