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Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life

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  • What
  • is
  • at
  • stake
  • socially,
  • culturally,
  • politically,
  • and
  • economically
  • when
  • we
  • routinely
  • use
  • technology
  • to
  • gather
  • information
  • about
  • our
  • bodies
  • and
  • environments?Today
  • anyone
  • can
  • purchase
  • technology
  • that
  • can
  • track,
  • quantify,
  • and
  • measure
  • the
  • body
  • and
  • its
  • environment.
  • Wearable
  • or
  • portable
  • sensors
  • detect
  • heart
  • rates,
  • glucose
  • levels,
  • steps
  • taken,
  • water
  • quality,
  • genomes,
  • and
  • microbiomes,
  • and
  • turn
  • them
  • into
  • electronic
  • data.
  • Is
  • this
  • phenomenon
  • empowering,
  • or
  • a
  • new
  • form
  • of
  • social
  • control?
  • Who
  • volunteers
  • to
  • enumerate
  • bodily
  • experiences,
  • and
  • who
  • is
  • forced
  • to
  • do
  • so?
  • Who
  • interprets
  • the
  • resulting
  • data?
  • How
  • does
  • all
  • this
  • affect
  • the
  • relationship
  • between
  • medical
  • practice
  • and
  • self
  • care,
  • between
  • scientific
  • and
  • lay
  • knowledge?
  • Quantified
  • examines
  • these
  • and
  • other
  • issues
  • that
  • arise
  • when
  • biosensing
  • technologies
  • become
  • part
  • of
  • everyday
  • life.The
  • book
  • offers
  • a
  • range
  • of
  • perspectives,
  • with
  • views
  • from
  • the
  • social
  • sciences,
  • cultural
  • studies,
  • journalism,
  • industry,
  • and
  • the
  • nonprofit
  • world.
  • The
  • contributors
  • consider
  • data,
  • personhood,
  • and
  • the
  • urge
  • to
  • self-quantify;
  • legal,
  • commercial,
  • and
  • medical
  • issues,
  • including
  • privacy,
  • the
  • outsourcing
  • of
  • medical
  • advice,
  • and
  • self-tracking
  • as
  • a
  • “paraclinical”
  • practice;
  • and
  • technical
  • concerns,
  • including
  • interoperability,
  • sociotechnical
  • calibration,
  • alternative
  • views
  • of
  • data,
  • and
  • new
  • space
  • for
  • design.Contributors Marc
  • Böhlen,
  • Geoffrey
  • C.
  • Bowker,
  • Sophie
  • Day,
  • Anna
  • de
  • Paula
  • Hanika,
  • Deborah
  • Estrin,
  • Brittany
  • Fiore-Gartland,
  • Dana
  • Greenfield,
  • Judith
  • Gregory,
  • Mette
  • Kragh-Furbo,
  • Celia
  • Lury,
  • Adrian
  • Mackenzie,
  • Rajiv
  • Mehta,
  • Maggie
  • Mort,
  • Dawn
  • Nafus,
  • Gina
  • Neff,
  • Helen
  • Nissenbaum,
  • Heather
  • Patterson,
  • Celia
  • Roberts,
  • Jamie
  • Sherman,
  • Alex
  • Taylor,
  • Gary Wolf
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