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Self-tracking / Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus.
Van Pelt Library RA418.5.M4 N44 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neff, Gina, 1971- author.
- Nafus, Dawn, author.
- Series:
- MIT Press essential knowledge series
- The MIT Press essential knowledge series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Patient self-monitoring.
- Self-monitoring.
- Self-care, Health--Technological innovations.
- Self-care, Health.
- Medical telematics.
- Medical innovations--Social aspects.
- Medical innovations.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Monitoring, Ambulatory.
- Technological innovations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Monitoring, Ambulatory.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. In this book, Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what it means when people turn their everyday experience into data."--Page [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- Welcome to the quantified self
- What is at stake? the personal gets political
- The quantified self as avocation
- The quantified self and the technology industry
- The quantified self and medicine
- Possible futures for the quantified self.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262529129
- 0262529122
- OCLC:
- 926821310
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