Quantified lives and vital data: exploring health and technology through personal medical devices
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349957699
Date de publication :
18 mai 2018
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.