Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine

This book explores a number of different self-tracking techniques, emphasising the self-responsibility on which self-tracking relies, the educational value that it provides, and the way in which it can establish healthier social norms. It was originally published as a special issue of the Health Sociology Review.

Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design at the University of Canberra, Australia. She is the author/co-author of sixteen books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (2015) and The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking (2016).

Introduction: Self-tracking, health and medicine 1. Health by numbers? Exploring the practice and experience of datafied health 2. Social rhythms of the heart 3. Clinical self-tracking and monitoring technologies: negotiations in the ICT-mediated patient-provider relationship 4. Training to self-care: fitness tracking, biopedagogy and the healthy consumer 5. Harm reduction and the ethics of drug use: contemporary techniques of self-governance 6. Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies: towards a critical research agenda 7. Are we fit yet? English adolescent girls' experiences of health and fitness apps