Explores body technologies in the context of healthcare. This book looks at the social, clinical, and technical relations pertaining to various body technologies that may play out in particular ways across a range of different healthcare contexts and stakeholders. The aim is to explore these issues with key examples illustrating how social contexts of use relate to the properties and assumptions bound up in particular choices of body-tracking technology.
Explores body technologies in the context of healthcare. This book looks at the social, clinical, and technical relations pertaining to various body technologies that may play out in particular ways across a range of different healthcare contexts and stakeholders. The aim is to explore these issues with key examples illustrating how social contexts of use relate to the properties and assumptions bound up in particular choices of body-tracking technology.