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Author:   Mikki Kressbach
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780472076598

ISBN 10:   0472076590
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   28 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Sensing Health Describing (Digital) Health Defining Health Organization Note on Language Chapter 1: Life as Cycle: The Datafication of Menstrual Health Managing Excess and Excretion Biomedical Cycles Life as Cycle Rethinking Menstrual Management Chapter 2: Pleasure Points: Sextech and Measuring Sexual Wellness Quantifying Sex and Pleasure Selling Sexual Wellness Optimizing Pleasure The Purpose of Pleasure? Chapter 3: Every Step Counts: Analyzing Fitness Tracking Technologies Health as/and Fitness Measure and Improve Feeling Fit? Chapter 4: Meditation and Breathing Technologies and the Biomedicalization of Wellness From Health to Wellbeing The Relaxation Response and the Rise of Evidence-Based Wellness “Making the intangible tangible” From Wellbeing to Feeling Health Chapter 5: Bodies in Action: Measuring Movement and Intensity “Make your body the sexiest outfit you’ll ever own” Feedback on Form Health as “Homelike Being-in-the-World” Bibliography

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“We are surrounded by technologies that measure our bodies, providing us data that aims to help us improve our health. Many of these technologies objectify our bodies, delivering reductionist accounts of complex biological processes. In Sensing Health, Kressbach shows that there is a potential for other technologies and designs that cater to the actual messiness, corporeality, secretions, and overall complexities of our changing bodies, instead of concealing or simplifying them.” —Kristina HÖÖk, KTH Royal Institute of Technology “Sensing Health examines digital health technologies coming from a variety of fields (wellbeing, fitness, health, etc.) to explore how they impact individual’s understanding and perception of health and body. Kressbach's methodology, which is grounded in the descriptive methods associated with the disciplines of film and media studies, enables her to explore aesthetic and multisensorial aspects crucial to digital health technologies design and use, aspects neglected by scholarly literature.” —Silvia Casini, University of Aberdeen, King’s College

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Mikki Kressbach is Assistant Professor, Film, TV and Media Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

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