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Author:   Btihaj Ajana (King's College London, UK) ,  Joaquim Braga (University of Coimbra, Portugal) ,  Simone Guidi (Italian National Research Council, Italy)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.451kg
ISBN:  

9781800718845

ISBN 10:   1800718845
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   06 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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INTRODUCTION; Btihaj Ajana, Joaquim Braga, and Simone Guidi PART I: Body Quantification and Subjectivity: Philosophical Perspectives Chapter 1. Body, Media and Quantification; Joaquim Braga Chapter 2. I Quantify, Therefore I Am: Quantified Self Between Hermeneutics of Self and Transparency; Lorenzo De Stefano Chapter 3. Quantified Care: Self-Tracking as a Technology of the Subject; Alessandro De Cesaris PART II: Body Quantification: Historical and Empirical Perspectives Chapter 4. Historical Context of Tracking Public Health and Quantifying Bodies: From the UK Welfare State to Digital Self-Care; Rachael Kent Chapter 5. Metrics of the Self: A Users’ Perspective; Btihaj Ajana Chapter 6. Whose Bodies? Approaching the Quantified Menstruating Body Through a Feminist Ethnography; Amanda Karlsson  PART III: Body Quantification and Mental Health Chapter 7. #Wellness or #Hellness: The Politics of Anxiety and the Riddle of Affect in Contemporary Psy-care; Ana Carolina Minozzo Chapter 8. Me Apps: Mental Health and the Smartphone; Zeena Feldman PART IV: Body Quantification and Smart Machines Chapter 9. The ‘Smart’ AI Trainer & her Quantified Body at Work; Phoebe V. Moore Chapter 10. Towards a Quanto-Qualitative Biological Engineering: The Case of the Neuroprosthetic Hand; Laura Corti

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Btihaj Ajana is Professor of Ethics and Digital Culture at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, UK. She is a former Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark. Joaquim Braga is Researcher and Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is also a member of the university's Institute for Philosophical Studies. Simone Guidi is Researcher at the CNR-ILIESI, Italy. He was (2019-2020) Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and FCT Post-Doc Fellow (2017-2019) at the same university's Institute for Philosophical Studies.

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