FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

Communicative Biocapitalism

Olivia Banner
    Product form
      FORMAT: Paperback / softback
      YOU COULD EARN 0 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.

      This product is either out of print or out of stock. Add it to your wishlist and we will automatically let you know if it comes back into stock. Add to Wishlist

      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 0.00 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 0.00 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 0.00 with

      This product is either out of print or out of stock. Add it to your wishlist and we will automatically let you know if it comes back into stock. Add to Wishlist

      Communicative Biocapitalism examines the cultural, technological, economic, and rhetorical logics that shape the “voice of the patient” in digital health, arguing that digital technologies rely on assumptions that reflect dominant ideologies of health, disability, gender, and race. While late 20th- century activism targeted inequalities in health and health care, these are not the central concerns of digital health; digital health tools such as the FitBit and Apple’s HealthKit are instead marketed as neutral devices made to help users take responsibility for their health. The book treats a wide range of examples, including patient- networking websites, the Quantified Self, and online breast cancer narratives to understand how the attention economy, platform regulations, and big data logics impinge on how digital health tools configure the “voice of the patient.” This configuration has real world effects, influencing pharmaceutical development, digital tool engineering, and how the politics of illness are made invisible.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Olivia Banner EAN: 9780472053698 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 360 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-11-20 CITY: GENRE: HEALTH & FITNESS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Health systems and services

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Olivia Banner is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas.
      Communicative Biocapitalism examines the cultural, technological, economic, and rhetorical logics that shape the “voice of the patient” in digital health, arguing that digital technologies rely on assumptions that reflect dominant ideologies of health, disability, gender, and race. While late 20th- century activism targeted inequalities in health and health care, these are not the central concerns of digital health; digital health tools such as the FitBit and Apple’s HealthKit are instead marketed as neutral devices made to help users take responsibility for their health. The book treats a wide range of examples, including patient- networking websites, the Quantified Self, and online breast cancer narratives to understand how the attention economy, platform regulations, and big data logics impinge on how digital health tools configure the “voice of the patient.” This configuration has real world effects, influencing pharmaceutical development, digital tool engineering, and how the politics of illness are made invisible.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Olivia Banner EAN: 9780472053698 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 360 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-11-20 CITY: GENRE: HEALTH & FITNESS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Health systems and services

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Olivia Banner is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas.

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account