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The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health

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Authors:
  1. Jacinthe Flore

    1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Offers a cutting-edge analysis of the emergence, applications and socio-technical networks of digital mental health
  • Deploys a framework drawn from work in science and technology studies, new materialism and sociology
  • Traces the expansion of digital mental health in the context of broader shifts in human-computer interactions

Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Artefacts in the Making of Digital Mental Health

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 1-25

  3. Apps and Chatbots: The Emergence of Algorithmic Subjectivity

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 27-50

  4. Wearable Devices: Bodies Living and Becoming with Vital Artefacts

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 51-74

  5. Ingestible Sensors: Embodied Care with/for Data

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 75-95

  6. Coda

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 97-100

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 101-104
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About this book

The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health focuses on smartphone apps, wearables devices, and ingestible sensors, which are at the centre of research, development, and investment in mental health and digitalisation. The book aims to examine digital mental health through three artefacts that are defined by their ubiquity, everydayness, popularity, innovation and hype, and emergent qualities. It engages with theoretical approaches to technology, mental health, and wellbeing informed by Science and Technology Studies, sociological studies of health and mental health, and sociomaterialism. The book brings together different theories of mental health, subjectivity, the body, care, and digitalisation alongside biodigital artefacts as exemplars of transformations in digital mental health.

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“The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health offers a cutting-edge analysis of the emergence, applications and socio-technical networks that constitute digital mental health care. Drawing together diverse theoretical insights on mental health, subjectivity, the body, care, and digitalisation, Jacinthe Flore provides a lively analysis of how artefacts such as smartphone apps, wearables devices, and ingestible sensors are transforming mental health care practices. It will be a ‘go to’ book for critical scholars looking to rethink mental health beyond either biomedical or social constructionist accounts to explore how emerging technologies come to matter.” (Simone Fullagar, Professor, Griffith University, Australia)

 

“In this timely new book, Jacinthe Flore offers a well-argued exploration of how digital technologies are being enrolled into the field of mental health. Flore carefully shifts debate away from solutionist interpretations of the significance of these artefacts for mental health, focusing instead on how the exploration of digital mental health presents us with the opportunity to rethink mental health itself.” (Flis Henwood, Professor Emeritus of Social Informatics, University of Brighton, UK)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Jacinthe Flore

About the author

Dr Jacinthe Flore is a Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies in the discipline of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health

  • Authors: Jacinthe Flore

  • Series Title: Health, Technology and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4322-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4321-0Published: 14 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4324-1Due: 15 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4322-7Published: 13 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2946-3386

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-3378

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 104

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Medical Sociology, Digital/New Media, Digital/New Media

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