Quantifying the body: Monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies

Critical Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 393-403

  Lupton, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

health promotion; mHealth; sociology of health

Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; SIMULATION;

EID: 84883313403     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2013.794931     Document Type: Article

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