Table of Contents
Introduction: Sensing Health
Describing (Digital) Health
Defining Health
Organization
Note on Language
Chapter 1: Life as Cycle: The Datafication of Menstrual Health
Managing Excess and Excretion
Biomedical Cycles
Life as Cycle
Rethinking Menstrual Management
Chapter 2: Pleasure Points: Sextech and Measuring Sexual Wellness
Quantifying Sex and Pleasure
Selling Sexual Wellness
Optimizing Pleasure
The Purpose of Pleasure?
Chapter 3: Every Step Counts: Analyzing Fitness Tracking Technologies
Health as/and Fitness
Measure and Improve
Feeling Fit?
Chapter 4: Meditation and Breathing Technologies and the Biomedicalization of Wellness
From Health to Wellbeing
The Relaxation Response and the Rise of Evidence-Based Wellness
“Making the intangible tangible”
From Wellbeing to Feeling Health
Chapter 5: Bodies in Action: Measuring Movement and Intensity
“Make your body the sexiest outfit you’ll ever own”
Feedback on Form
Health as “Homelike Being-in-the-World”
Bibliography