Living data : making sense of health bio-sensing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Roberts, Celia (Author), Mackenzie, Adrian (Author), Mort, Maggie (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Living Data; Copyright; Table of contents; List of Tables, Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: What Does Biosensing Do?; Layers of biosensing practice; Biosensors multiply; The biosensing health platform economies of 'my' and 'our' data; The platform alignments of biosensing; Cultural logics of biosensing; Summary of the argument: sensing, biology-medicine and platforms; Overview of chapters; 1 Fertility Biosensing; 'Femtech' and the new fertility; Citizens talking ovulation; Women's use of fertility biosensing; Is fertility tracking feminist biosensing?
  • Our (reproductive) bodies, our data?Critical experiments in fertility biosensor design; Conclusions; 2 Biosensing Stress; What is stress?; Configuring stress; Stress surveillance?; The collective politics of stress; Conclusions; 3 Platform Biosensing and Post-Genomic Relatedness; Understanding the tests; Share and compare?; The value of n = 1 versus n = many; Radical data dividuation; Conclusions; 4 Biosensing in Old Age; Self-tracking or dys-tracking?; The struggle to make sense of falls and telecare data; Researching telecare in use
  • Citizens' (not patients' or service users') perspectives on sensor-based home careConclusions; Conclusion: What Might Biosensing Do?; Health biosensing policy and practice; Scenario: the Browns from Preston: an 'ordinary family'; Act 1: making sense of genetic data; Act 2: making sense of fertility monitoring; Appendix; Scenario: the Browns from Preston: an 'ordinary family'; Act 1: making sense of genetic data; Act 2: making sense of fertility monitoring; References; Index