Beyond techno-utopia: Critical approaches to digital health technologies

Societies

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 706-711

  Lupton, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical perspectives; Digital health; Social sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 85117604098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/soc4040706     Document Type: Editorial

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