Health Technologies in Practice: Between the home and the clinic
<br>Time and venue: From 12:30pm on Wed 19th June 2019 to 1:30pm Thurs 20th
<br>June 2019
<br>
<br>At: St Mary’s Church, Bramall Lane, Sheffield, S2 4QZ
<br>
<br>Symposium Description
<br>
<br>There has been an explosion in markets for digital and wearable
<br>technologies such as Fitbit and health apps. At the same time, and to some
<br>extent prefiguring this, there has been a growth in consumer markets for
<br>what might be thought of as more clinically orientated self-monitoring
<br>devices. Products that were seen as the preserve of clinicians, such as
<br>blood pressure, heart rate, blood glucose or blood oxygen monitors, are now
<br>widely available to buy. It is claimed that self-monitoring could transform
<br>healthcare, promoting self-care, improving health and saving costs. The
<br>provenance of such claims can be traced through previous innovations such
<br>as ehealth, telecare and telehealth. Yet, as with previous innovations,
<br>self-monitoring raises important questions about the distribution of
<br>responsibilities for health and care, the spaces and relationships
<br>involved, the role of health professionals and commercial actors, and the
<br>production, distribution and control of knowledge. We might also ask how we
<br>come to understand self-monitoring, and the different methods for
<br>approaching this from a social science perspective.
<br>
<br>The symposium is part of a Leverhulme Trust Funded Research Project on
<br>‘Knowledge, Care and the Practices of Self-Monitoring’. Focusing on
<br>health
<br>technologies in practice, the project aimed to understand how and why
<br>people self-monitor and to consider how this relates to knowledge,
<br>expertise and care. Presentations at the symposium will relate to
<br>self-monitoring and other everyday health technologies to consider ‘health
<br>technologies in practice’ from different perspectives and very different
<br>methodologies. The symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of
<br>researchers, with interests in STS, medical sociology, anthropology,
<br>disability studies, media studies and cultural studies.
<br>
<br>Speakers :
<br>
<br>Btihaj Ajana, Kings College London
<br>*Sharing and its discontents in the quantified self culture*
<br>
<br>Dorthe Brogård Kristensen, University of Southern Denmark
<br>*Optimization and the imaginary of metrics *
<br>
<br>Fiona Stevenson, University College London
<br>*Raising, discussing and using the internet in GP consultations*
<br>
<br>Janice McLaughlin, University of Newcastle
<br>*The home and everyday life as a site of embodied self-monitoring*
<br>
<br>Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki
<br>*Seeking medicinal agencies: antidepressants and life effects *
<br>
<br>Kate Weiner, University of Sheffield
<br>*Partial data and curation: the everyday data practices of self-monitoring*
<br>
<br>Catherine Will & Flis Henwood, Universities of Sussex and Brighton
<br>*Monitoring with care? Exploring the role of family (and friends) in the
<br>practices of self monitoring*
<br>
<br>Ros Williams & Jacob Andrews, University of Sheffield
<br>*After the interview: adventures in methods*
<br>Full programme details:
<br>http://tracking-ourselves.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Symposi
<br>um-programme-v2.pdfFurther
<br>information and to register: https://w
<br>
<br>ww.eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-technologies-in-practice-between-the-home-and-th
<br>e-clinic-tickets-59434829174?utm_term=eventurl_text
<br>
<br>
<br>Organisers:
<br>Kate Weiner,* University of Sheffield*
<br>Jacob Andrews, *University of Sheffield*
<br>Catherine Will, *University of Sussex*
<br>Flis Henwood, *University of Brighton*Tracking ourselves? Research project
<br>funded by the Leverhulme Trust: http://tracking-ourselves.group.shef.ac.uk/
<br>--
<br>Kate Weiner | Senior Lecturer in Sociology | Room LG22 | Department of
<br>Sociological Studies | Elmfield | Northumberland Road | Sheffield | S10 2TU
<br>| 0114 2226491
<br>
<br>Post-graduate admissions and marketing tutor
<br>
<br>https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/weiner
<br>
<br>
<br>Tracking ourselves? Research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust
<br>http://tracking-ourselves.group.shef.ac.uk/
<br>
<br>*Latest papers:*
<br>Constituting practices, shaping markets: remaking healthy living through
<br>commercial promotion of blood pressure monitors and scales
<br>https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2018.1497144
<br>
<br>Self-monitoring for health: questions for an emerging field
<br>https://tinyurl.com/y7cwojf2
<br>
<br>Thinking with care infrastructures: people, devices and the home in home
<br>blood pressure monitoring https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12590
<br>
<br>Racialised prescribing: enacting race/ethnicity in clinical practice
<br>guidelines and in accounts of clinical practice
<br>https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12727
<br>_______________________________________________
<br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list
<br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net
<br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net
<br>
<br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst
<br>
<br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.net
view formatted text
