{"product_id":"data-paradoxes-isbn-9780262545419","title":"Data Paradoxes","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn contemporary healthcare, everybody seems to want more data, of higher quality, on more people, and to use this data for a wider range of purposes. In theory, such pervasive data collection should lead to a healthcare system in which data can quickly, efficiently, and unambiguously be interpreted and provide better care for patients, more efficient administration, enhanced options for research, and accelerated economic growth. In practice, however, data are difficult to interpret and the many purposes often undermine one another. In this book, anthropologist and STS scholar Klaus Hoeyer offers an in-depth look at the paradoxes surrounding healthcare data.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on Denmark, a world leader in healthcare data infrastructures, Hoeyer shares the perspectives of different stakeholders, from epidemiologists to hospital managers, from patients to physicians, analyzing the social dynamics set in motion by data intensification and calling special attention to that which cannot be easily coded in a database. HHe illustrates how data can be at once helpful, overwhelming, and sometimes disastrous through concrete examples. The COVID-19 pandemic serves as a special closing case study that shows how these data paradoxes carry weighty political implications. By revealing the diverse and sometimes contradictory practices spawned by intensified data sourcing, \u003ci\u003eData Paradoxes \u003c\/i\u003eraises vital questions about how we might better use healthcare data.Preface vii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Data Politics 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Data Promises 29\u003cbr\u003e2 Data Living 59\u003cbr\u003e3 Data Work 87\u003cbr\u003e4 Data Experiences 117\u003cbr\u003e5 Data Wisdom 145\u003cbr\u003e6 Data Pandemic 179\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Data Paradoxes 213\u003cbr\u003eNotes 239\u003cbr\u003eReferences 249\u003cbr\u003eIndex 301“Urgent and timely in an era of institutional uncertainty on a global scale, Data Paradoxes informs data scientists, clinicians, and policymakers about actual practices around data infrastructures while making an important contribution to scholarly discourse.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Linda F. Hogle, Professor of Medical Social Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eData Paradoxes\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the hidden costs of datafication while also showing us the good that data can do when it prompts discussions on how things ought to be.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Barbara Prainsack, Professor of Comparative Policy Analysis, University of Vienna; author of \u003ci\u003ePersonalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Amidst the many promises of the data deluge, Klaus Hoeyer’s engaging book offers a timely reminder that data are produced by humans and assume meaning within social relations.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alan Petersen, Professor of Sociology, Monash University, Australia; author of \u003ci\u003eEmotions Online: Feelings and Affordances of Digital Media \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKlaus Hoeyer is Professor of Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen and author of the book \u003ci\u003eExchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304641679589,"sku":"NP9780262545419","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545419.jpg?v=1767724744","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/data-paradoxes-isbn-9780262545419","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}