Background Long-term conditions and their concomitant management place considerable
pressure on patients, communities, and health care systems worldwide. International clinical …

Over the past decade, data-intensive logics and practices have come to affect domains of
contemporary life ranging from marketing and policy making to entertainment and education; …

In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at
women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather …

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new
adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self …

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

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 …

The digital nomad idea of freedom is often a generalised and subjective notion of freedom
that imagines a lifestyle and future where the tensions between work and leisure melt away …

Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked
to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and …

Self-tracking devices point to a future in which individuals will be more involved in the
management of their health and will generate data that will benefit clinical decision making …

Embodiment in Qualitative Research connects critical, interdisciplinary theorizing of
embodiment with creative, practical strategies for engaging in embodied qualitative …