Digital health and the gamification of life :: how apps can promote a positive medicalization /

This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster...

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Hauptverfasser: Maturo, Antonio Francesco (VerfasserIn), Moretti, Veronica (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Ausgabe:First edition.
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Zusammenfassung:This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster social discrimination.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:178754365X
9781787543652
9781787543676
1787543676

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