The digitally engaged patient: Self-monitoring and self-care in the digital health era

D Lupton - Social Theory & Health, 2013 - Springer
The phenomenon of digital health has emerged as a key dimension of contemporary
healthcare policy and delivery in many countries. This review article focuses on one aspect …

[HTML][HTML] The cultivation of digital health citizenship

D Petrakaki, E Hilberg, J Waring - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Contemporary health policy discourse renders individuals responsible for managing their
health by means of digital technology. Seeing the digital as productive of citizenship, rather …

[图书][B] Digital health and technological promise: A sociological inquiry

A Petersen - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
What is 'digital health'? And, what are its implications for medicine and healthcare, and for
individual citizens and society?'Digital health'is of growing interest to policymakers …

[图书][B] Digital health: critical and cross-disciplinary perspectives

D Lupton - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and
public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response …

[HTML][HTML] Between empowerment and self-discipline: governing patients' conduct through technological self-care

D Petrakaki, E Hilberg, J Waring - Social Science & Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent health policy renders patients increasingly responsible for managing their health via
digital technology such as health apps and online patient platforms. This paper discusses …

Digitized Health Promotion

D Lupton - To fix or to heal: Patient care, public health, and the …, 2013 - degruyter.com
Since the first years of the twenty-first century, governments in many countries have been
faced with harsh economic challenges. One way in which they have sought to meet these …

Critical perspectives on digital health technologies

D Lupton - Sociology compass, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Discussions of digital health technologies in the popular media and the medical and public
health academic literature frequently comment on how these technologies might offer new or …

Power, paradox and pessimism: on the unintended consequences of digital health technologies in primary care

S Ziebland, E Hyde, J Powell - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
We consider what might be learned from the unintended, apparently unanticipated,
consequences of the use of digital health (including alternatives to face to face …

[HTML][HTML] The double-edged sword of digital self-care: Physician perspectives from Northern Germany

A Fiske, A Buyx, B Prainsack - Social Science & Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasingly, patients are expected to take initiative and care for themselves through
practices of digital self-care: by generating data, by looking for people who can help them …

Towards critical digital health studies: Reflections on two decades of research in health and the way forward

D Lupton - Health:, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, I provide some reflections on critical digital health research in the context of
Health's 20th anniversary. I begin by outlining the various iterations of digital technologies …