Titlebook: Quantified Lives and Vital Data; Exploring Health and Rebecca Lynch,Conor Farrington Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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Slippery Slopes and Trojan Horses: The Construction of E-Cigarettes as Risky Objects in Public Healte debates construct e-cigarettes as different objects, with implicit assumptions about what these objects ‘are’, how people will respond to them, and their comparability to tobacco cigarettes. Drawing on practice theory approaches, this chapter questions such assumptions, pointing out that objects a

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Blood Informatics: Negotiating the Regulation and Usership of Personal Devices for Medical Care and ual and discursive local processes of adoption of exemplar devices both within and outside organised healthcare systems, given the regulatory context of the UK and the European Union. Two case studies are presented of portable devices that measure and/or monitor blood flow or blood pressure, one wit

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Co-Designing for Care: Craft and Wearable Wellbeing meaning of the designed object. However, participation in the design process by users can actively influence the output. Involvement in the co-creation of personal medical devices (PMDs) contributes towards patients’ wellbeing and increases their adherence to device usage. The chapter takes a case

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Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Some Concluding Remarks 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 bou

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Personal Medical Devices: People and Technology in the Context of Healthne and its handling of its objects of study (the ‘medical’) and wider consequences of these technologies (the ‘device’). Introducing the contributions to the book, the chapter argues that nuanced, critical and empirically grounded approaches are needed to interrogate and understand emerging issues in this field.

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In/Visible Personal Medical Devices: The Insulin Pump as a Visual and Material Mediator Between , ang flexibility and well-being in other ways. These findings reveal how the pump, whose in/visibility can be manipulated through various strategies, acts as a visual and material mediator in relationships between multiple . and ..

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Data as Transformational: Constrained and Liberated Bodies in an ‘Artificial Pancreas’ Studytitudes to the self and technology. The variability of such experiences illustrates the complexity of technology usage as it occurs in practice and the multiple ways in which data increasingly play important roles in experiences of health and illness.