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The lifestylisation of healthcare? ‘Consumer genomics’ and mobile health as technologies for healthy lifestyle

Consumer genomics and mobile health provide health-related information to individuals and offer advice for lifestyle change. These ‘technologies for healthy lifestyle’ occupy an ambiguous space between the highly regulated medical domain and the less regulated consumer market. We argue that this amb...

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Autores principales: Lucivero, Federica, Prainsack, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4745358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26937349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atg.2015.02.001
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description Consumer genomics and mobile health provide health-related information to individuals and offer advice for lifestyle change. These ‘technologies for healthy lifestyle’ occupy an ambiguous space between the highly regulated medical domain and the less regulated consumer market. We argue that this ambiguity challenges implicit distinctions between what is medical and what is related to personal lifestyle choices within current regulatory systems. In this article, we discuss how consumer genomics and mobile health devices give rise to new ways of creating (and making sense of) health-related knowledge. We also address some of the implications of harnessing, rather than denying, the hybridity of mobile health devices, being situated between medical devices and consumer products, between health and lifestyle.
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spelling pubmed-47453582016-03-02 The lifestylisation of healthcare? ‘Consumer genomics’ and mobile health as technologies for healthy lifestyle Lucivero, Federica Prainsack, Barbara Appl Transl Genom Special Section — Lifestyle Genomics: Fact, Fiction or Both? with Guest Editors Cristiana Pavlidis and George Patrinos Consumer genomics and mobile health provide health-related information to individuals and offer advice for lifestyle change. These ‘technologies for healthy lifestyle’ occupy an ambiguous space between the highly regulated medical domain and the less regulated consumer market. We argue that this ambiguity challenges implicit distinctions between what is medical and what is related to personal lifestyle choices within current regulatory systems. In this article, we discuss how consumer genomics and mobile health devices give rise to new ways of creating (and making sense of) health-related knowledge. We also address some of the implications of harnessing, rather than denying, the hybridity of mobile health devices, being situated between medical devices and consumer products, between health and lifestyle. Elsevier 2015-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4745358/ /pubmed/26937349 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atg.2015.02.001 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short The lifestylisation of healthcare? ‘Consumer genomics’ and mobile health as technologies for healthy lifestyle
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topic Special Section — Lifestyle Genomics: Fact, Fiction or Both? with Guest Editors Cristiana Pavlidis and George Patrinos
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4745358/
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