Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Some Concluding Remarks

C Farrington; Rebecca Lynch

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95235-9_12

Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Some Concluding Remarks

C Farrington, Rebecca Lynch

Population Health Sciences

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Reflecting on the contributions to this edited volume, this chapter draws out some of the key themes and issues raised by social science approaches to personal medical devices (PMDs). The chapters illustrate that what PMDs (and other health technologies) ?do? and ?are? may be quite different. They are variously embedded through practices, spaces, times, and relationships and so cannot be considered as stand-alone objects. Likewise, particular boundaries that PMDs bring into focus--e.g., self/other, bodily boundaries, medicine and medical boundaries, and bodily/health data--are not fixed or prescriptive but rather dynamic and changing. Investigating PMDs therefore allows exploration of dynamic and situated intersections of people, health, and technology--the quantified lives that we increasingly live and the vital data produced by these.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Personal Medical Devices: People and Technology in the Context of Health
Editors	R Lynch, C Farrington
Place of Publication	London, UK
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	283-289
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95235-9_12
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Name	Health, Technology and Society

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