Health Trackers
eBook - ePub

Health Trackers

How Technology is Helping Us Monitor and Improve Our Health

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Health Trackers

How Technology is Helping Us Monitor and Improve Our Health

About this book

New consumer technology is empowering us to take control of our day-to-day health. Leading tech writer Richard MacManus looks at what is out there now and what is in development, and what this might mean for our health in the future. Health Trackers tells the story of the rise of self-tracking — the practice of measuring and monitoring one's health, activities or diet. Thanks to new technologies, such as smartphone apps and personal genomics, self-tracking is revolutionizing the health and wellness industries. Through interviews with tech developers, early adopters and medical practitioners, Richard MacManus explores what is being tracked, what tools and techniques are being used, the best practices of early adopters, and how self-tracking is changing healthcare. The first eight chapters focus on a particular type of, or approach to, self-tracking, for example, diet, daily activity and genetics. The final two chapters look at how the medical establishment is adopting, and adapting to, self-tracking. This timely book covers technologies still early in their evolution but poised to go mainstream, and rather than look at how to use specific gadgets, it focuses on the philosophy and usefulness of self- tracking in its many forms. Many of us are curious about it, but don't understand the benefits (and sometimes risks) of these tools and practices. With no comparable book on the market, Trackers is the first to focus on consumer technologies and to help ordinary people negotiate the new health landscape.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781442253568
Edition
0
Subtopic
Nutrition, Dietics & Bariatrics

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter One Buster Benson’s self-tracking odyssey
  4. Chapter Two The pedometer on steroids: tracking activity with Fitbit
  5. Chapter Three Diet wars: tracking food with MyFitnessPal
  6. Chapter Four The tao of weight tracking
  7. Chapter Five How useful is genetics? Me & my 23andMe results
  8. Chapter Six Inception: tracking the brain
  9. Chapter Seven Bacteria nation: tracking the microbiome with uBiome
  10. Chapter Eight The health dashboard: TicTrac
  11. Chapter Nine The modern doctor: Dr. Robin Berzin
  12. Chapter Ten Tracking + medicine: MD Revolution
  13. Epilogue
  14. The author
  15. Further reading & references