Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

The new mobile wireless computer technologies and social media applications using Web
2.0 platforms have recently received attention from those working in health promotion as a …

Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became
popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual …

Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and
his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired …

"'Cyber security'is a recent addition to the global security agenda, concerned with protecting
states and citizens from the misuse of computer networks for war, terrorism, economic …

This is the first monograph to develop a hermeneutic approach to the digital—as both a
technological milieu and a cultural phenomenon. While philosophical in its orientation, the …

This article asks the question, is it possible to decipher a new 'medical cosmology'that
possesses an elective affinity with contemporary socio-technological changes? It tentatively …

New technologies have made the increased globalization of information resources and
services possible. In this situation, it is ethically and intellectually beneficial to protect cultural …

Who are we in simulated worlds? Will experiencing worlds that are not'actual'change our
ways of structuring thought? Can virtual worlds open up new possibilities to philosophize …

The processes of datafication, digitization and automation of healthcare and medicine are
making new types and data available for analysis, and at greater volume. While the newly …