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100	1		_aMaturo, Antonio, _eauthor. _960351
245	1	0	_aDigital health and the gamification of life : _bhow apps can promote a positive medicalization / _cAntonio Francesco Maturo and Veronica Moretti (University of Bologna, Italy).
264		1	_aBingley, U.K. : _bEmerald Publishing Limited, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) ; _ccm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis book analyses the role of technology in the realm of health. Health apps can promote medicalization and the idea that health is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one. The authors base their arguments around three theoretical frameworks. Quantification: the growing importance in our society of markers, rankings, and scores, which thanks to digital devices is fueled by the ease with which it is now possible to collect data. Gamification: a powerful trend in digital society, using playful features to transform what are seen as dull tasks into competitive and appealing ones. Gamified self-tracking seemingly increases our productivity without oppressing us with apparent self-governance. Finally, Medicalization: a growing social phenomenon of the transformation of a "normal" condition into something pathological. Several health apps presuppose a conception of the user as an individualized subject divorced from any social determinants of health. The authors investigate the possibility of people sharing their most private states leading to new forms of algorithmic surveillance. Alongside this negative vision of medicalization the authors recover the now-rare concept of positive medicalization, looking at how apps can work as positive self-help devices though promoting a medical framework. A selection of digital programs related to fitness in the workplace are also presented and discussed.
588	0		_aPrint version record
650		0	_aHealth _xData processing. _960352
650		7	_aSocial Science _xSociology _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aMedical sociology. _2bicssc _957827
700	1		_aMoretti, Veronica, _eauthor. _960353
776			_z9781787543669
776			_z9781787543683
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787543652
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