[Commlist] New book: An Anthropological Approach to mHealth (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers/An Anthropological 
Approach to mHealth /edited by Charlotte Hawkins, Patrick Awondo, and 
Daniel Miller.
Download it free: https://ow.ly/XPtt50TUcks<https://ow.ly/XPtt50TUcks>__

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*An Anthropological Approach to mHealth
*Edited by Charlotte Hawkins, Patrick Awondo, and Daniel Miller
Free download: https://ow.ly/XPtt50TUcks<https://ow.ly/XPtt50TUcks>__

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This book proposes a radically different anthropological approach to the 
development and dissemination of mobile health (mHealth), a rapidly 
growing sector in healthcare. /An Anthropological Approach to 
mHealth/ is based on ten 16-month ethnographies in settings across Asia, 
Africa, Europe and Latin America that showed how conventional health 
apps may be irrelevant particularly for older people. Instead, the 
studies found that many people use their mobile and smartphones for 
health purposes to a surprising extent. They take the communicative apps 
they have become comfortable with, such as LINE, WeChat and WhatsApp, 
and are highly creative in turning them into their own health apps. 
These are the practices from which this book seeks to learn, in what we 
call a ‘smart-from-below’ approach.

This body of research also provided many additional insights, including 
the consequences of googling for health information, the role of the 
smartphone in specific settings such as an oncology clinic in Chile or 
tele-psychotherapy in Uganda, and the lessons learnt during Covid-19 
around the problems in self-tracking. Overall, the authors show how an 
anthropological approach situated in the observation of everyday life 
can be the foundation for an alternative but highly promising 
perspective on the future of mHealth.

Free download: https://ow.ly/XPtt50TUcks<https://ow.ly/XPtt50TUcks>__


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