Digital Health and the Gamification of Life: How Apps Can Promote a Positive Medicalization

This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster...

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Main Authors Maturo, Antonio Francesco, Moretti, Veronica
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley Emerald Publishing Limited 2018
Emerald Pub
Emerald
Edition1
Subjects
Data processing
Health
Health > Data processing
Health > Technological innovations
Medicine
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Summary:This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster social discrimination.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-167) and index
ISBN:1787543668
9781787543669
DOI:10.1108/9781787543652