Publisher's Synopsis
The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Health and Society provides an in-depth survey of a rapidly growing field, approaching digital health from a social science perspective, where previously medical and engineering perspectives were prevalent.
It contains complex discussions of key social theories that explain how processes of digitalisation require organisations and practices of health and medicine to cope with increases in quantification, ubiquitous connectivity and unprecedented modes of computational power. This book also outlines how the entanglement of contemporary life with digital technologies reconfigures the perception of the self and the sensing of the body, and provides important insights into emerging forms of digital health activism and new perspectives towards the responsible governance of digital health.
Through these analyses, the handbook establishes a much-needed thematic framework for future teaching and research.
