Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies

This editorial presents an overview of digital health technologies, discusses previous research and introduces the contributions to the special issue "Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies". It is argued that thus far, few critical analyses of digital hea...

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Published in:	Societies (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2014-12, Vol.4 (4), p.706-711
Main Author:	Lupton, Deborah
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	critical perspectives digital health Health Information technology Social research social sciences
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Summary:	This editorial presents an overview of digital health technologies, discusses previous research and introduces the contributions to the special issue "Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies". It is argued that thus far, few critical analyses of digital health technologies have been published in the social science literature, particularly in relation to the newest technologies. While the articles collected here in this special issue have gone some way in offering a critical response to digital health technologies, they represent only a beginning. Many more compelling topics remain to be investigated. The editorial ends with outlining directions for future research in this area.
ISSN:	2075-4698 2075-4698