An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Ageing with Smartphones
Editat de Charlotte Hawkins, Patrick Awondo, Daniel Milleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 apr 2025
An Anthropological Approach to mHealth underlines ten sixteen-month ethnographies, set across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, that revealed people’s use of communicative apps, including as LINE, WeChat, and WhatsApp’s alternative primary health apps, highlighting the irrelevance of dedicated health apps. Using a “smart-from-below” approach, this book studies these surprising practices and proposes a radically different anthropological method to the development and dissemination of mobile health (mHealth), a rapidly growing sector in healthcare.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781787354241
ISBN-10: 1787354245
Pagini: 276
Ilustrații: 21 color halftones, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
Seria Ageing with Smartphones
ISBN-10: 1787354245
Pagini: 276
Ilustrații: 21 color halftones, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
Seria Ageing with Smartphones
Notă biografică
Charlotte Hawkins is a health anthropologist currently affiliated with the Max Planck research group, Ageing in a Time of Mobility. Patrick Awondo is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Yaoundé 1-Cameroon. Daniel Miller is professor of anthropology at UCL and director of its Centre for Digital Anthropology.
Cuprins
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
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