Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects

AcknowledgementsList of Figures1. Out of Death, A Birth2. The Rise of the Databased Society3. Privacy and Data Phantoms4. Coercive Consent and Digital Health Information5. The Biopolitics of Lively Data6. The Uncanny Lives of Data Commodities7. The Body of Evidence8. Life After DeathNotesReferencesIndex


Author: Mary F. E. Ebeling
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/28/2016
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.99w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781137502209

About the Author
Mary F.E. Ebeling is Director of Women's and Gender Studies, and Associate Professor in Sociology at Drexel University, USA. Her research examines the intersections of gender and race, technologies, digital culture, data privacy, marketing and medical capitalism. She was a visiting research fellow in sociology at the University of Surrey, UK, from which she also holds a PhD.