Rajiv Mehta
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034173
- eISBN:
- 9780262334549
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034173.003.0008
- Subject:
- Information Science, Communications
Based on the practical experiences of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, this chapter responds to ideas presented in this section concerning disruptive health innovation and privacy. Using case studies ...
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Based on the practical experiences of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, this chapter responds to ideas presented in this section concerning disruptive health innovation and privacy. Using case studies in the development of health-related and non-health consumer products, the text describes how common attitudes about the primacy of professional health expertise retards innovation, and argues that true disruption must come from outside the formal medical establishment. The text also describes why product-level privacy controls for users, while important, may provide little actual value and therefore involve difficult tradeoffs for developers—a lot of effort for functionality that is demanded but unlikely to be used or useful.Less
Based on the practical experiences of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, this chapter responds to ideas presented in this section concerning disruptive health innovation and privacy. Using case studies in the development of health-related and non-health consumer products, the text describes how common attitudes about the primacy of professional health expertise retards innovation, and argues that true disruption must come from outside the formal medical establishment. The text also describes why product-level privacy controls for users, while important, may provide little actual value and therefore involve difficult tradeoffs for developers—a lot of effort for functionality that is demanded but unlikely to be used or useful.
Dawn Nafus (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034173
- eISBN:
- 9780262334549
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034173.001.0001
- Subject:
- Information Science, Communications
Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, ...
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Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon empowering, or a new form of social control? Who volunteers to enumerate bodily experiences, and who is forced to do so? Who interprets the resulting data? How does all this affect the relationship between medical practice and self care, between scientific and lay knowledge? Quantified examines these and other issues that arise when biosensing technologies become part of everyday life. The book offers a range of perspectives, with views from the social sciences, cultural studies, journalism, industry, and the nonprofit world. The contributors consider data, personhood, and the urge to self-quantify; legal, commercial, and medical issues, including privacy, the outsourcing of medical advice, and self-tracking as a “paraclinical” practice; and technical concerns, including interoperability, sociotechnical calibration, alternative views of data, and new space for design. Contributors: Marc Böhlen, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sophie Day, Anna de Paula Hanika, Deborah Estrin, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Dana Greenfield, Judith Gregory, Mette Kragh-Furbo, Celia Lury, Adrian Mackenzie, Rajiv Mehta, Maggie Mort, Dawn Nafus, Gina Neff, Helen Nissenbaum, Heather Patterson, Celia Roberts, Jamie Sherman, Alex Taylor, Gary WolfLess
Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon empowering, or a new form of social control? Who volunteers to enumerate bodily experiences, and who is forced to do so? Who interprets the resulting data? How does all this affect the relationship between medical practice and self care, between scientific and lay knowledge? Quantified examines these and other issues that arise when biosensing technologies become part of everyday life. The book offers a range of perspectives, with views from the social sciences, cultural studies, journalism, industry, and the nonprofit world. The contributors consider data, personhood, and the urge to self-quantify; legal, commercial, and medical issues, including privacy, the outsourcing of medical advice, and self-tracking as a “paraclinical” practice; and technical concerns, including interoperability, sociotechnical calibration, alternative views of data, and new space for design. Contributors: Marc Böhlen, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sophie Day, Anna de Paula Hanika, Deborah Estrin, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Dana Greenfield, Judith Gregory, Mette Kragh-Furbo, Celia Lury, Adrian Mackenzie, Rajiv Mehta, Maggie Mort, Dawn Nafus, Gina Neff, Helen Nissenbaum, Heather Patterson, Celia Roberts, Jamie Sherman, Alex Taylor, Gary Wolf
Uwe Puetter
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198716242
- eISBN:
- 9780191784903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716242.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
The most senior Council configurations—the Economic and Financial Affairs Council and the Foreign Affairs Council—as well as the Eurogroup, are charged with policy coordination rather than with ...
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The most senior Council configurations—the Economic and Financial Affairs Council and the Foreign Affairs Council—as well as the Eurogroup, are charged with policy coordination rather than with law-making. They work under the direct supervision of the European Council and meet more frequently than any other Council formation. The shift in focus towards policy coordination and deliberation has been reflected in a series of attempts at institutional engineering, which were aimed at enhancing informal working methods and face-to-face debates between ministers. Council reform was most successful in areas where the distinction between coordination and law-making was particularly pronounced. The case of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council, instead, reveals the differences in the two modes of decision-making. Policy coordination within the Council is backed by an increasingly sophisticated system of coordination comitology, which links member state administrations and Commission resources.Less
The most senior Council configurations—the Economic and Financial Affairs Council and the Foreign Affairs Council—as well as the Eurogroup, are charged with policy coordination rather than with law-making. They work under the direct supervision of the European Council and meet more frequently than any other Council formation. The shift in focus towards policy coordination and deliberation has been reflected in a series of attempts at institutional engineering, which were aimed at enhancing informal working methods and face-to-face debates between ministers. Council reform was most successful in areas where the distinction between coordination and law-making was particularly pronounced. The case of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council, instead, reveals the differences in the two modes of decision-making. Policy coordination within the Council is backed by an increasingly sophisticated system of coordination comitology, which links member state administrations and Commission resources.
