Under Observation: The Interplay Between eHealth and Surveillance
Editors: Adams, Samantha, Purtova, Nadezhda, Leenes, Ronald (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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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’.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-6
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Unobtrusiveness in mHealth Design and Use: A Systematic Literature Study
Pages 9-29
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eHealth and Privacy in U.S. Employer Wellness Programs
Pages 31-58
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Use of a Wearable Device to Promote Healthy Behaviors Among Employees of a Small-to-Medium Enterprise in the Netherlands
Pages 59-69
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Selling Passive Monitoring to Manage Risk in Independent Living: Frontline Workers in a Bind
Pages 73-90
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Under Observation: The Interplay Between eHealth and Surveillance
- Editors
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- Samantha Adams
- Nadezhda Purtova
- Ronald Leenes
- Series Title
- Issues in Privacy and Data Protection
- Series Volume
- 35
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-48342-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-48342-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-48340-5
- Series ISSN
- 2352-1929
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 213
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations
- Topics