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The Quantification of Bodies in Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 978-1-80071-884-5, eISBN: 978-1-80071-883-8
Publication date: 6 December 2021
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(2021), "Index", Ajana, B., Braga, J. and Guidi, S. (Ed.) The Quantification of Bodies in Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 213-219. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-883-820211020
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Copyright © 2022 Btihaj Ajana, Joaquim Braga and Simone Guidi
INDEX
Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.
Active perception
, 203
Active potential
, 185
Activities of Daily Life (ADLs)
, 204
Actor network theory
, 9, 39, 96
Affective Computing
, 196
Affective labour
, 188–189
Alcibiades
, 60
Aletheia
, 32
Algorithmic capitalism
, 182
Amazfit Bip
, 95
Amazon
, 43
Alexa
, 6
Ambient intelligence
, 44
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
, 138–139
Amputation
, 18
Anamnesis
, 56
Anatomopolitics
, 95
Anti-insomnia drugs
, 138
Antianxiety
, 138
Antidepressant
, 138, 146
Anxiety
, 138, 139–141, 158
dividual speak
, 151–155
quantifying affect
, 146–149
unwanted
, 142–146
wellness or hellness
, 149–151
Apparatus
, 39, 45
Apple Watch
, 95
Aqualert Apps
, 100
Aristotelian theory
, 19
ARPANET
, 161
Articulation metaphor
, 17
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
, 10, 182, 196
Artificial intelligence trainers (AIT)
, 187–189
and relations of production
, 185–186
Audience
, 166–167
Autonomia
, 187
Autonomous ‘smarts’
, 186–187
Autonomy
, 186–187
Bathing
, 204
Big Data
, 31, 46, 74
Bioengineering
, 204
Biohacking
, 5
Biologism
, 146
Biometric techniques
, 1
Biopolitics
, 9, 95
Biosociality
, 105
Birth of Neoliberalism
, 75–79
Blocknote
, 56
Body/bodies
, 16–17
health tracking and quantification of
, 72–73
information and self-care
, 24–27
as machine
, 206–207
and media theory
, 17–20
phenomenology
, 25
quantification and information
, 22–24
quantification of
, 79–80
techno-myths and quantification
, 21–22
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (BWHBC)
, 127
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS)
, 161
Business model
, 167–168
Cartesian body
, 21
Categorisation
, 183
Circular processes
, 207
Citalopram
, 146
Close linear cycle process
, 207
Cloud
, 31
Clue
, 6
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
, 150, 168
Cognitive capitalism
, 65
Communicative affordances
, 167
Consumer
capitalism
, 163
health tracking
, 83–85
Contact tracing apps
, 6
Contemporary digital culture
, 163
Contemporary society of control
, 139
Content moderator
, 187
Convergence
, 17
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
, 158
App
, 73
digital society and
, 85–87
pandemic
, 1, 73, 138
vaccine passports
, 6–7
Cure
, 43–46
CyberHand
, 202
Cybernetics
, 182
Cyborg hybrid intentionality
, 35
Dasein
, 38
Data Protection Directive
, 189
Data service workers
, 187
Datafication process
, 43
Dataism
, 46
De-subjectivation
, 8, 45
Degrees of Freedom
, 203
Dénumération
, 3
Depression
, 139, 146, 158, 164
Depression Awareness, Recognition, and Treatment Program (DART)
, 146
Descriptive psychopathology
, 142
Diagnosis of neurasthenia
, 142
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
, 138, 148
Diagnostic grammar
, 149
Diagnostic-culture
, 139
Dietary Allowances
, 74
Digital
maps
, 184
materiality
, 20
media
, 20
panopticon
, 44–45
self-management
, 9
self-tracking
, 51, 62–63
society and Covid-19 Pandemic
, 85–87
technology
, 158–160
tracking devices
, 1
Digital body quantification
, 6
Digital culture
, 159
content shifts
, 162–163
hardware shifts
, 160–161
shifts in
, 160
software shifts
, 161–162
Digital health
, 79
tracking
, 80–83
Digital self-care
from 2008 Global Recession to digital society of 2021
, 79
birth of neoliberalism
, 75–79
digital health tracking and neoliberal quantified self
, 80–83
digital society and Covid-19 Pandemic
, 85–87
medical vs. consumer health tracking
, 83–85
and quantification of bodies
, 79–80
three phases of health tracking and quantification of bodies
, 72–73
UK Welfare State
, 73–75
Digitalisation of workplaces
, 182
Direct messages (DMs)
, 86
Dispositifs
, 1, 155
Dividualisation
, 139
Dividuality
, 10
Dualism
, 203
Eating
, 204
Education
, 56, 64
Effexor
, 147
Ekphrasis
, 16
Electronic performance monitoring (EPM)
, 182
Emancipation
, 124
Embodied relations
, 25
Embodiment
, 22, 208
relations
, 95
Epimeleia eautou
, 63
Epimeleia heautou
, 41
Episteme
, 32
Escitalopram
, 146
Ethos
, 31
European Data Protection Board (EDPB)
, 190
Exagoreusis
, 41, 61
Exomológēsis
, 41, 61
Explicit Content Detection
, 187–188
Expressive ecstasy
, 18
Facebook
, 97, 187
Feminism
, 121
Feminist STS
, 124
Feminist theory
of body
, 122
of science
, 125
Femtech, 121n1
Fit-efficient-pure-controlled model
, 151
Fitbit
, 80, 97
Charge
, 95
Forum
, 97
Fitness movement
, 77
Forced adaptation
, 154
Foucault, Michel
, 51
4th Revolution
, 31, 43
Free-to-download apps
, 168
GAFA
, 43
Galilean methods
, 195
Garmin Vivosport
, 95
Gender
, 122
gender and technology
, 123–125
gender-specific apps
, 121
Gendered data-body
, 129
General data positioning (GPS)
, 184
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
, 44, 112, 189, 190–191
Global financial crisis (2008)
, 79
Global health movements
, 1
Global Recession to digital society of 2021
, 79–87
Gnoti seauton
, 40
GOFAI
, 185
Google
, 43
Governmentality
, 139
Great Recession (2008)
, 8
Hardware shifts
, 160–161
Health (see also Digital health)
management
, 87
promotion strategies
, 79
responsibilisation practices
, 72
trackers
, 24
tracking and quantification of bodies
, 72–73
Healthism
, 72, 77
Hermeneutic relations
, 95
Human Activity Assistive Technology model (HAAT model)
, 203
Human-device interface
, 197
Human–technology relation
, 35
Hyperconnectivity
, 158
Hypermediation
, 53
Hypermodern subjectivity
, 51
Hypermoral character of technology
, 38
Hypomnema
, 63
Hypomnesis
, 56
Immediacy
, 65
Immersion technologies
, 18–19
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
, 158–159
Individual responsibility
, 73
Inforg
, 33
Information
, 22–27
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
, 31–32
Information technology revolution
, 73
Instagram
, 80
Integrated mathematical measurement systems
, 4
Intelligence
, 185, 200
Intelligent virtual assistants
, 26
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
, 145
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Impairment (ICF)
, 203, 205
International Data Corporation (IDC)
, 97
Internet of Things
, 30, 44
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
, 161
Internet-enabled smartphone
, 158
Invasive technique
, 202
Italian National Health Service (INAIL)
, 201
Key performance indicators
, 182
Kismet
, 196
Knowledge production
, 120
Knowledge-producing bodies
, 126–129
Leib
, 11
Liberalism
, 76
LifeHand 2
, 202
Lifeless body
, 5
Lifelogging
, 31
Living body
, 5
Loop
, 207
Machine et organism
, 21
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
, 146
Man to stereoscopic vision
, 197–200
Management style
, 78
MapMyRun
, 80
Mapping mental health apps
, 166
audience
, 166–167
business model
, 167–168
communicative affordances
, 167
therapeutic approach
, 168–169
Marxism
, 9
Mass medicalisation
, 151
Material engagement theory, quantified self and
, 35–38
Materiality
, 20
Mathematical theory of communication
, 22
Mathematics
, 21
Mathesis
, 2
McLuhan’s prosthesis-theory
, 16
Me apps
, 10, 159–160, 169–172
digital technology and wellness
, 158–160
mapping mental health apps
, 166–169
methodology
, 163–166
shifts in digital culture
, 160–163
Media
, 21
body and
, 17–20
theory
, 52
Medical health tracking
, 83–85
Menstruation
, 121
configuration of
, 129–131
Mental health care
, 158
Metaphor
of appearance
, 18
of bodily disappearance
, 21
of disappearance
, 18
Metatechnology
, 51, 64–65
Metric culture
, 94
Metrics of self
attitudes towards privacy and data protection
, 109–114
general profile of survey participants
, 97
post-phenomenological approach
, 95
self-tracking and quantification
, 94–95
self-tracking devices and frequency of use
, 97–98
sharing in self-tracking culture
, 104–108
user-technology interactions
, 96
users track
, 98–104
Mind concept
, 198
MobilePay
, 6
Mobility
, 204
Modern governmentality
, 149
Modern medical quantification
, 2
Modern technology
, 33
Modernity
, 1
Modulated dividuals
, 153
MoodTools
, 169
Musterbild
, 24
MyFitnessPal online platform
, 97
National Health Service (NHS)
, 72
Covid-19 App
, 85
Track and Trace
, 85
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
, 146
Natural philosophy
, 2
Neo-Kraepelinian
, 145
Neoliberal capitalism
, 148
Neoliberal quantified self
, 80–83
Neoliberalism
, 8, 72, 149
birth of
, 75
shifting public health perspectives from 1960s to 1980s
, 75–79
Neural interface
, 201
Neurasthenia
, 142
Neurophysiological analysis
, 199
Neuroprosthesis
, 206
Neurosis
, 148
Neutral approach
, 51
New materialism
, 96
Non unidirectional process
, 207
Numération
, 3
Office of National Statistics (ONS)
, 138, 158
ORLANcorps, 4n2
Otherness
, 122
Paroxetine
, 146
Passive quality
, 203
Pathologising anxiety
, 142–146
Pathology
, 139
Perception
, 197, 204–207
Period tracker, 121n1
Personal care technologies
, 25
Personal hygiene
, 204
Personal science
, 5, 30
Personalised healthcare’ experience
, 80
Phaedrus
, 17
Pharmacological corporations
, 139
Pinel’s approach
, 144
Plant Nanny Apps
, 100
Platform capitalism
, 45
Platonic theory, 19 (see also Feminist theory)
Positive Psychology
, 150
Positivism
, 9
Post-phenomenological approach
, 95
Post-phenomenology
, 9, 39
Pre-digital media
, 17, 20
Premenstrual symptoms (PMS)
, 127
Primary qualities of body
, 195–196
Prostheses
, 201–202
Prozac
, 146
Pseudo-sharing
, 108
Psychiatry
, 142, 144
Psychoanalysis
, 140, 144
Psychoanalytic logic
, 139
Psychology
, 139
Psychosis
, 148
Public health policy
, 78
Quantification
, 21–24
of body
, 1, 79–80
process
, 16, 121
Quantified body
, 21, 121
Quantified menstruating bodies
, 121–122
configuration of menstruation
, 129–131
gendered data-body
, 129
knowledge-producing bodies
, 126–129
methods and material
, 125–126
perspectives on gender and technology
, 123–125
theorising bodies
, 122–123
Quantified Self movement (QS)
, 1, 5–6, 31, 50, 81, 94, 153
as ‘technology of self’
, 38–42
critical case
, 30–31
features of self-tracking as practice
, 60–63
Foucault and technology
, 51–56
hyperhistorical background
, 31–35
and material engagement theory
, 35–38
meetup groups
, 97
self-tracking
, 50–51
self-tracking as stage in history of self-care
, 56–60
self-tracking users
, 63–65
truth, subject, cure, and transparency
, 43–46
Quantified work
, 182
Quantified workplace
, 182–183
Quantitative aesthetics of individual existence
, 8
Quanto-qualitative biological engineering
body as machine
, 206–207
embodiment
, 208
from functional view to integrate approach
, 203–205
meaning for body
, 206
perspectives
, 209
qualities
, 195–196
Robot Inside Us
, 206
robotic hand
, 200–203
robotics engineers
, 196
from two images of man to stereoscopic vision
, 197–200
Raw feelings
, 200
Ready-to-hand
, 200–201
Representation subject
, 17
Reproduction
, 121
Res extensa
, 21
Robotic hand
, 200–203
Science and technology studies (STS)
, 124
Scientific image
, 198
Secondary qualities of body
, 195–196
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
, 146
Self management
, 151
Self-care
, 24–27, 40
self-tracking as stage in history of
, 56–60
Self-cure
, 40
Self-help apps
, 168
Self-improvement
, 94
Self-knowledge
, 94
Self-quantification
, 6, 81
Self-revelation
, 41
Self-tracking
, 50, 94
and apps
, 5
devices
, 32, 34–35
and frequency of use
, 97–98
practices
, 8, 30
sharing in self-tracking culture
, 104–108
as stage in history of self-care
, 56–60
technologies
, 51, 80, 120
tools
, 24–25
users
, 63–65
Sellars
, 198–199
Sensation
, 197, 200
Sense qualities
, 199
Sense-making processes
, 18
Sensualism
, 4
Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SSNRI)
, 147
Sertraline
, 146
Sexuality
, 121
Shared body
, 20
Shared materiality
, 20, 26
Sharing in self-tracking culture
, 104–108
Smart AI trainers
, 11
Smart cars
, 183–184
Smart cities
, 183–184
Smart machines
, 11, 182, 183
AI trainers and relations of production
, 185–186
autonomous ‘smarts’
, 186–187
smart cars
, 183–184
smart technologies
, 184–185
Smart technologies
, 10, 184–185
Smart watches
, 183
Smart Worker’s data rights
, 189–191
Smart’ AI Trainer
AIT
, 187–189
quantified workplace
, 182–183
smart machines
, 183–187
Smart Worker’s data rights
, 189–191
Smartphone
, 158–159, 183–184
SOAR project
, 125
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)
, 147
Social cognitive conditions
, 185
Social media
, 80, 162
Social networks platforms
, 43
Social subjugation
, 154
Socialization
, 25
Society
of control
, 10, 96
of transparency
, 45
Soft imperative
, 62
Stereoscopic vision, man to
, 197–200
Strava
, 80
Subject
, 43–46
Subjective truth
, 10
Subjectivity
, 51
Surveillance studies
, 9, 43
Technai
, 54
Technical-scientific knowledge
, 21
Techno-capitalism
, 44
Techno-governmental machines
, 45
Techno-myths and quantification
, 21–22
Techno-scientific global financial capitalism
, 139
Technocratic totalitarianism
, 45
Technology/technologies, 21, 54n1
, 120
gender and
, 123–125
of power
, 39
of production
, 39
of self
, 38–42, 51
of self
, 54
of sign systems
, 39
Telehealth
, 80
Telemedicine
, 80
Telos
, 61, 63
Terms and conditions (T&C)
, 82
Therapeutic approach
, 168–169
Things
, 37
Toileting
, 204
Totalitarianism of surveillance
, 43
Transparency
, 43–46
society
, 44
Transparent body
, 20
Transversal intrafascicular multichannel electrodes (TIMEs)
, 202
Truth
, 43–46
Turing’s machine
, 196
Twitter
, 97
UK Welfare State
, 73–75
Unwanted anxiety
, 142–146
Usenet
, 161
User-technology interactions
, 96
Userification of society
, 65
Venlafaxine
, 147
Vera icona
, 18
Vibrotactile substitution
, 201
Virtual assistants
, 6
Virtual reality (VR)
, 19
Vorbild
, 24
Wearable tracking devices
, 95
Wellness
, 158–160
Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link’ (the WELL)
, 171
Wolf, Gary
, 105
Workspaces
, 183
World Wide Web (WWW)
, 162
Zoloft
, 147
- Prelims
- Introduction
- Part I: Body Quantification and Subjectivity: Philosophical Perspectives
- Chapter 1: Body, Media and Quantification
- Chapter 2: I Quantify, Therefore I Am: Quantified Self Between Hermeneutics of Self and Transparency
- Chapter 3: Quantified Care: Self-Tracking as a Technology of the Subject
- Part II: Body Quantification: Historical and Empirical Perspectives
- Chapter 4: From the UK Welfare State to Digital Self-Care: Historical Context of Tracking Public Health and Quantifying Bodies
- Chapter 5: Metrics of the Self: A Users’ Perspective
- Chapter 6: Whose Bodies? Approaching the Quantified Menstruating Body Through a Feminist Ethnography
- Part III: Body Quantification and Mental Health
- Chapter 7: #Wellness or #Hellness: The Politics of Anxiety and the Riddle of Affect in Contemporary Psy-care
- Chapter 8: Me Apps: Mental Health and the Smartphone
- Part IV: Body Quantification and Smart Machines
- Chapter 9: The ‘Smart’ AI Trainer & Her Quantified Body at Work
- Chapter 10: Towards a Quanto-Qualitative Biological Engineering: The Case of the Neuroprosthetic Hand
- Index