Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies

• Main Author: Deborah Lupton (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: health and illness; telemedicine; digital health; telehealth; public health surveillance; the body; self-tracking; digital technologies; social media; digital epidemiology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The title for this special issue was devised as a direct challenge to the prevailing solutionist and instrumental approaches to the application of digital technologies to medicine and public health. In formulating the idea and title for the special issue, I wanted to inspire some provocative and cha...