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This is a detailed analysis of how understandings of health management past, present and future has transformed in the digital age. Since the mid-20th century, we have witnessed 'healthy' lifestyles being pushed as part of health promotion strategies, both via the state, and through health tracking tools, and narratives of wellness online. This marks a seismic shift from a public welfare state responsibility for health towards individualised practices of digital self-care. Today health has become representative of 'lifestyle corrections' which is performed on social media. Putting the spotlight on neoliberalism and digital technology as pervasive tools that dictate wellness as a moral obligation, Rachael Kent critically analyses how users navigate relationships between self-tracking technologies, social media, and everyday health management. .

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9781529210156

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"""This book conceptualises what digital health means in people's lives. It shows the complexities and ambivalences inherent in new digital subjectivities, and is a strong and original contribution."" Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler, Aarhus University"

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Rachael Kent is Lecturer in Digital Economy and Society in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, and Founder of tech-wellbeing consultancy Dr. Digital Health.

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