Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities

Synopsis

Examines The Cultural, Technological, Economic, And Rhetorical Logics That Shape The Voice Of The Patient In Digital Health To Identify How Cultural Understandings And Social Locations Of Race, Gender, And Disability Intertwine With Whose Voices Are Elicited And How They Are Interpreted. -- Publisher Description Introduction : Theorizing Communicative Biocapitalism -- Structural Racism And Practices Of Reading In The Medical Humanities -- The Voice Of The Patient In Communicative Biocapitalism -- Capacity And The Productive Subject Of Digital Health -- Algorithms, The Attention Economy, And The Breast Cancer Narrative -- Against The Empathy Hypothesis. Olivia Banner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.