{"product_id":"digital-health-isbn-9781119652717","title":"Digital Health","description":"Including contributions from international scholars, papers in this collection explore diverse fields of healthcare (reproductive health, primary care, diabetes management, mental health) within which heterogenous technologies (health apps, mobile platforms, smart textiles, time-lapse imaging) are becoming increasingly embedded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores how digital technologies are increasingly being developed, implemented and used in the delivery of health and care, contributing to potentially disruptive changes in how healthcare is practised and experienced by health professionals, patients and those within their wider care networks\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how sociological theory, often at the intersection with science and technology studies (STS), can help us understand these changes\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers insights into the promissory discourses that constitute digital health and the ways in which knowledge, connectivity and power are re-configured in a range of situated health and care practices\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Understanding digital health: Productive tensions at the intersection of sociology of health and science and technology studies (Flis Henwood, Benjamin Marent)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePromissory digital health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Digitising psychiatry? Sociotechnical expectations, performative nominalism and biomedical virtue in (digital) psychiatric praxis (Martyn Pickersgill)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017 (Emma Rich, Andy Miah, Sarah Lewis)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e(Re)configuring knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Navigating the cartographies of trust: how patients and carers establish the credibility of online treatment claims (Alan Petersen, Claire Tanner, Megan Munsie)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. General Practitioner's use of online resources during medical visits: managing the boundary between inside and outside the clinic (Fiona Stevenson, Laura Hall, Maureen Seguin, Helen Atherton, Rebecca Barnes, Geraldine Leydon, Catherine Pope, Elizabeth Murray, Sue Ziebland)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The vaccination debate in the “post‐truth” era: social media as sites of multi‐layered reflexivity (Dino Numerato, Lenka Vochocová, Václav Štětka, Alena Macková)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Making sense with numbers. Unravelling ethico‐psychological subjects in practices of self‐quantification (Jeannette Pols, Dick Willems, Margunn Aanestad)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e(Re)configuring connectivity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. On digital intimacy: redefining provider–patient relationships in remote monitoring (Enrico Maria Piras, Francesco Miele)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Temporalities of mental distress: digital immediacy and the meaning of ‘crisis’ in online support (Ian M. Tucker, Anna Lavis)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Smart textiles: transforming the practice of medicalisation and health care (Kelly Joyce)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e(Re)configuring control\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. ‘Built for expansion’: the ‘social life’ of the WHO's mental health GAP Intervention Guide (China Mills, Eva Hilberg)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Algorithmic assemblages of care: imaginaries, epistemologies and repair work (Nete Schwennesen)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The datafication of reproduction: time‐lapse embryo imaging and the commercialisation of IVF (Lucy van de Wiel)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlis Henwood \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Social Informatics at the University of Brighton, UK. She has a background in the sociology of health and science and technology studies and has published widely on the relationship between information, technology and care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Marent \u003c\/b\u003eis Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, UK. He has a background in sociology of health and is currently working in the area of digital health, working with developers and users to explore the complexity and ambivalence at play when digital technologies are embedded in practices of health and medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigital technologies are increasingly being developed, implemented and used in the delivery of health and care, contributing to potentially disruptive changes in how healthcare is practised and experienced by health professionals, patients and those within their wider care networks. The papers in this collection explore how sociological theory, often at the intersection with science and technology studies (STS), can help us understand these changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions from international scholars in the field, papers in this collection explore diverse fields of healthcare (reproductive health, primary care, diabetes management, mental health) within which heterogenous technologies (health apps, mobile platforms, smart textiles, time-lapse imaging) are becoming increasingly embedded. They offer insights into the promissory discourses that constitute digital health and the ways in which knowledge, connectivity and power are re-configured in a range of situated health and care practices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989065744613,"sku":"NP9781119652717","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119652717.jpg?v=1761782652","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/digital-health-isbn-9781119652717","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}