Neff, Gina, 1971-

Self-tracking / Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus. - xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. - The MIT Press essential knowledge series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to self-tracking -- What is at stake? The personal gets political -- Making sense of data -- Self-tracking and the technology industry -- Self-tracking and medicine -- Future directions for self-tracking.

"Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. In this book, Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what it means when people turn their everyday experience into data."--Page 4 of cover.

9780262529129

2015039937


Patient self-monitoring.
Self-monitoring.
Self-care, Health--Technological innovations.
Medical telematics.
Medical innovations--Social aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.

RA418.5.M4 / N44 2016

610.285 NE.S 2016