Living data : making sense of health bio-sensing
Maggie Mort (Author), Celia Roberts (Author), Adrian Mackenzie (Author)
As individuals increasingly seek ways of accessing, understanding and sharing data about their own bodies, this text 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, the work explores the potential challenges related to people's changing relationships with traditional health systems as access to, and control over, data shifts
eBook, English, 2020
Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2020