Living Data

Making Sense of Health Biosensing

Roberts, Celia, Mackenzie, Adrian, Celia Roberts, Adrian Mackenzie, Maggie Mort

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781529207507
• eBook ISBN:
  9781529207538
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

As individuals increasingly seek ways of accessing, understanding and sharing data about their own bodies, this book offers a critique of the popular claim that 'more information' equates to 'better health'. In a study that redefines the public, academic and policy related debates around health, bodies, information and data, the authors consider the ways in which the phenomenon of self-diagnosis has created alternative worlds of knowledge and practises which are often at odds with professional medical advice. With a focus on data that concerns significant life changes, this book explores the potential challenges related to people's changing relationships with traditional health systems as access to, and control over, data shifts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction: What Does Biosensing Do?
• 1 Fertility Biosensing
• 2 Biosensing Stress
• 3 Platform Biosensing and Post-Genomic Relatedness
• 4 Biosensing in Old Age
• Conclusion: What Might Biosensing Do?
• Appendix
• References
• Index