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An Anthropological Approach to MHealth
An Anthropological Approach to MHealth
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Author(s): HAWKINS, Awondo
ISBN No.: 9781787354258
Pages: 276
Year: 202504
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 96.60
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

List of figures List of tables List of contributors List of abbreviations Series foreword Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: health and care in the smartphone age Charlotte Hawkins and Daniel Miller Part I: Contextualising mHealth 2 The smartphone and the 'Human Plus': an ethnographic review of mHealth practices in Shanghai, China Xinyuan Wang 3 mHealth initiatives in Yaoundé: between 'good technology' and 'wrong messages' Patrick Awondo 4 Care, communication and Covid: notes from a Milan neighbourhood Shireen Walton 5 Doctor Google will see you first Daniel Miller Part II: Informing mHealth 6 The healthcare system, the smartphone, and the human factor: oncological nurses using WhatsApp at a public hospital in Santiago, Chile Alfonso Otaegui 7 An anthropological approach to tele-psychotherapy: providing 'somewhere in-between' to go Charlotte Hawkins and John Mark Bwanika Part III: Designing mHealth 8 From 'datafication' to socialization: rethinking self-tracking in Rural Japan Laura Haapio-Kirk, Sasaki Lise and Kimura Yumi 9 From menopause to hypertension: securing engagement Pauline Garvey, Daniel Miller and Sheba Mohammid 10 'I take care of what I eat to be in better health': using WhatsApp as a visual diary to uncover older Brazilians' relationship with food Marília Duque 11 Conclusion Kate Hampshire Index.


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