Index
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
Citation
(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
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2022 Btihaj Ajana, Joaquim Braga and Simone Guidi
INDEX
Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.
- 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