title: Illness and health in times of self-tracking, wellness and self-optimization. On the way to the health society?
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metadata.value: Kleineberg, Michael
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-05T10:40:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-05T10:40:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kleineberg M. Illness and health in times of self-tracking, wellness and self-optimization. On the way to the health society? Vestnik SPbSU. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2018, vol. 34, issue 1, pp. 17–23.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2018.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9347
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: On the basis of a concrete example from the insurance industry, the text deals with fundamental
  shifts in the relationship between health and disease. The focus of the study is on everyday
  phenomena such as self-tracking and the growing wellness movement. The first part of the article
  analyses discourses that are built around these contemporary phenomena. The key words
  “self-monitoring” and “wellness” refer to two discourses that describe forms of rationalization
  of our everyday life. These discourses appear to be linked to fundamental socio-cultural
  and socio-technical changes in modern societies. Under the term “self-optimization” they are
  increasingly becoming the subject of sociological and cultural studies with various results,
  a brief overview of which is given in the text. In the second part of the article the author considers
  how these discourses affect our attitudes towards health and illness. It is demonstrated
  that the discourses of “self-monitoring” and “wellness” embody a notion of health, according
  to which health is not merely the absence of disease, but a product that can be created through
  methodical efforts and targeted self-organization and that can be constantly improved. The
  main thesis of the article is that such a concept of health underlies the general movement
  towards an ever-growing and all-pervasive society of health. A society, in which health will
  increasingly depart from generally accepted medical standards and thus becomes boundless.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 34; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: illness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: health
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: self-optimization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: health society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Illness and health in times of self-tracking, wellness and self-optimization. On the way to the health society?
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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