Individuals on alert: digital epidemiology and the individualization of surveillance

Abstract This article examines how digital epidemiology and eHealth coalesce into a powerful health surveillance system that fundamentally changes present notions of body and health. In the age of Big Data and Quantified Self, the conceptual and practical distinctions between individual and populati...

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Main Author: Silja Samerski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:Life Sciences, Society and Policy
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40504-018-0076-z