Comments on: Empowerment Through Numbers? Biomedicalization 2.0 and the Quantified Self http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/06/empowerment-through-numbers-biomedicalization-2-0-and-the-quantified-self/ We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality. Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:52:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: What is the Quantified Self Now? » Cyborgology http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/06/empowerment-through-numbers-biomedicalization-2-0-and-the-quantified-self/#comment-30433 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:08:59 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=11766#comment-30433 […] testing, “citizen science,” and the DIY Bio movement as part of my work on what I’ve termed biomedicalization 2.0. For a while thereafter, whenever I heard “quantified” and “self” together, it was usually […]

]]> By: Self-Tracking: A Low-Tech Practice » Cyborgology http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/06/empowerment-through-numbers-biomedicalization-2-0-and-the-quantified-self/#comment-19663 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:00:53 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=11766#comment-19663 […] We all know that Cyborgologist Whitney Erin Boesel (@phenatypical) is our resident expert on self-tracking however, as she makes her way from one side of the country to the other, I will pick up the […]

]]> By: Measured Me Awesome Links Weekly Roundup | Measured Me http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/06/empowerment-through-numbers-biomedicalization-2-0-and-the-quantified-self/#comment-13011 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:19:03 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=11766#comment-13011 […] + biomedicalization + Quantified Self = Cyborgology: a thought-provoking article in The Society […]

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]]> By: Empowerment Through Numbers? Biomedicalization 2.0 and the Quantified Self » Cyborgology | The Sociology of the Quantified Self | Scoop.it http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/06/empowerment-through-numbers-biomedicalization-2-0-and-the-quantified-self/#comment-9383 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:03:13 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=11766#comment-9383 […]   […]

]]> By: Empowerment Through Numbers? Biomedicalization 2.0 and the Quantified Self | healthcare technology | Scoop.it http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/06/empowerment-through-numbers-biomedicalization-2-0-and-the-quantified-self/#comment-8867 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:20:26 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=11766#comment-8867 […] What is biomedicalization 2.0? In 2003, Clarke, Shim, Mamo, Fosket, and Fishman [paywall, sorry] proposed biomedicalization as a way to describe “the increasingly complex, multisited, multidirectional processes of medicalization, both extended and reconstituted through the new social forms of highly technoscientific biomedicine.” Beginning around 1985, and against the backdrop of late modernity, biomedicalization emerged as technoscience was increasingly incorporated into medicine. This incorporation changed not only the practice of medicine, but also the process of medicalization. Biomedicalization furthered the expansion of medical authority into more areas of human life, and reorganized the institution of biomedicine “from the inside out.”  […]

]]> By: Meaning-Making Through Numbers: Emotional Self-Quantification » Cyborgology http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/06/empowerment-through-numbers-biomedicalization-2-0-and-the-quantified-self/#comment-8800 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:41:26 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=11766#comment-8800 […] Last week, I focused on self-quantification in relation to my masters work on what I’ve termed biomedicalization 2.0; this week, I focus on my upcoming dissertation project, which will look specifically at emotional […]

]]> By: Empowerment Through Numbers? Biomedicalization 2.0 and the Quantified Self | Flash Politics & Society News | Scoop.it http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/06/empowerment-through-numbers-biomedicalization-2-0-and-the-quantified-self/#comment-8777 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:45:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=11766#comment-8777 […] In preparation for the 2012 Quantified Self Conference on 15 and 16 September (#QS2012), I’ll be spending the next two weeks writing about the “self knowledge through numbers” group Quantified Self (@QuantifiedSelf).  […]

]]> By: Für meine Bachelorarbeit in Berlin – Eindrücke vom 4. Quantified Self Meetup in der c-base | vermessen leben http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/09/06/empowerment-through-numbers-biomedicalization-2-0-and-the-quantified-self/#comment-8758 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:23:17 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=11766#comment-8758 […] Ist Quantified Self eine sich neu-entwickelnde Therapieform für Alternativen-Suchende? Eine Flucht in Zahlen, statt in Medikamente oder in klassisch psychotherapeutische Ansätze? Sich selber helfen mit Quantified Self? Doch biomedicalization 2.0? […]

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