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    The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare

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    Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.In contemporary healthcare, everybody seems to want more data, of higher quality, on more people, and to use this data for a wider range of purposes. In theory, such pervasive data collection should lead to a healthcare system in which data can quickly, efficiently, and unambiguously be ... Leer más

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation, technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in different ... Leer más

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  • Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets

    de Klaus Hoeyer ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about ’markets in human body parts’ which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it. Assumptions about markets and bodies that characterize this debate are analyzed and described while the author ... Leer más

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  • Science Communication

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    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
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  • Open Science: the Very Idea

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    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
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  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

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  • International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

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