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With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.
In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood and human embodiment and the value of the data that underpin them.
The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking, as well as about the proliferating ways in which people's personal data are now used beyond their private rationales. Lupton outlines how the information that is generated through self-tracking is taken up and repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial and research purposes. In the relationship between personal data practices and big data politics, the implications of self-tracking are becoming ever more crucial.

Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.

本书分为三部分，第一部分考察了理解男性气质的方法，回顾了本世纪以来通过精神分析研究和社会研究来创建男性气质科学的主要尝试；第二部分阐述了作者在实地研究中获得的有关男性气质的观点；第三部分思考了当今有关男性气质的知识中的政治含义。本书旨在全面系统地介绍，分析和研究男性气质问题，对之做出有计划性的初步探讨，并同时保留深入讨论的空间。

本书试图阐述健康、疾病和身体的共同意义, 以及它们是如何产生和再次产生的, 这些意义可能是普通人和医务人员生活世界中固有的。为了解释西方科学医学作为社会文化产物的要素, 本书“旁征博引”, 不仅探讨了医学社会学、健康和疾病社会学、医学史、医学人类学等亚学科的研究与文章, 同时对文化研究、传播研究、医学地理学以及科学与技术研究领域的视角也有所涉猎。