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Under Observation: The Interplay Between eHealth and Surveillance

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Editors:
  1. Samantha Adams

    1. TILT, Tilburg University, AB Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  2. Nadezhda Purtova

    1. TILT, Tilburg University, AB Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  3. Ronald Leenes

    1. TILT, Tilburg University TILT, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  • Brings together original scholarship from the hitherto unrelated streams of eHealth and surveillance studies
  • Offers a rare selection of essays from law, ethics, philosophy, and social studies of technology
  • Reflects cutting-edge, critical regulatory developments in the fields of eHealth and surveillance
  • Is the fourth book in the respected TILTing perspectives series

Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 35)

Part of the book sub series: Issues in Privacy and Data Protection (ISDP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Samantha Adams, Nadezhda Purtova, Ronald Leenes
    Pages 1-6

  5. Revisiting Key Concepts in the Interplay Between Surveillance and Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Ubiquitous Digital Devices and Health: Reflections on Foucault’s Notion of the ‘Clinic’

      • Samantha Adams
      Pages 165-176

    3. Health Data for Common Good: Defining the Boundaries and Social Dilemmas of Data Commons

      • Nadezhda Purtova
      Pages 177-210

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 211-213
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About this book

The essays in this book clarify the technical, legal, ethical, and social aspects of the interaction between eHealth technologies and surveillance practices. The book starts out by presenting a theoretical framework on eHealth and surveillance, followed by an introduction to the various ideas on eHealth and surveillance explored in the subsequent chapters. Issues addressed in the chapters include privacy and data protection, social acceptance of eHealth, cost-effective and innovative healthcare, as well as the privacy aspects of employee wellness programs using eHealth, the use of mobile health app data by insurance companies, advertising industry and law enforcement, and the ethics of Big Data use in healthcare. A closing chapter draws on the previous content to explore the notion that people are ‘under observation’, bringing together two hitherto unrelated streams of scholarship interested in observation: eHealth and surveillance studies. In short, the book represents a first essential step towards cross-fertilization and offers new insights into the legal, ethical and social significance of being ‘under observation’.

Editors and Affiliations

  • TILT, Tilburg University, AB Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Samantha Adams, Nadezhda Purtova

  • TILT, Tilburg University TILT, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Ronald Leenes

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