Connected Digital Devices in Health

Dominique Carré is Professor Emeritus of Information and Communication Sciences at LabSIC, Sorbonne Paris Nord University, France. His research focuses on digital innovations and communication systems in the context of rapid industrialization and hyperconnectivity. He is also co-editor of the online journal tic&société.Geneviève Vidal is Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at LabSIC, Sorbonne Paris Nord University, France. Her research focuses on digital uses from a sociopolitical perspective. She is also president of the Creis-Terminal association.

• Presentation of the Authors ixIntroduction xiDominique CARRÉ and Geneviève VIDALChapter 1. A Sociohistorical Approach: Moving Closer Together Through Detachment from Care Practices 1Dominique CARRÉ1.1. The shift to ambulatory care: digitalized as a structuring framework 31.2. Innovation and technology: the position given to digital ICT 51.3. Distance and proximity: medical biology and medical imaging 71.4. Distance and proximity: development of remote health services between the pandemic and a shortage in care provision 91.5. Connected objects? 121.6. Connected objects at the frontiers of "well-being" and "healthcare" 141.7. Illustration of a "gray" zone 171.8. Arrival of new disruptive inputs in the healthcare field 191.9. Increase in data and data sovereignty in healthcare 231.10. Increase in sociotechnical mediations, strengthening a process of moving closer together through detachment and connected uses 251.11. References 28Chapter 2. Connected Sleep: From Individualizing to Modeling the Doctor–Patient Relationship 31Christian PAPILLOUD, Geneviève VIDAL and Yanita ANDONOVA2.1. Methodology 332.2. Category A: practices and uses of digital devices and connected objects 342.3. Category B: doctor–patient relationships mediated by technology 442.4. Category C: challenges of automation in the doctor–patient relationship 512.5. Determining the legitimacy of monitoring technology 582.6. Discussion 682.7. Conclusion 722.8. References 73Chapter 3. Digital Devices in Psychiatry and Mental Health 77Étienne HIEN3.1. Mental health and psychiatry 813.2. Projects and technical devices in psychiatry and mental health 823.3. Innovations in health: the question of technical determinism 883.4. Innovations in health: between technical solutionism and social control? 913.5. Economic challenges and health data security 953.6. Conclusion 963.7. References 98Chapter 4. Connected Devices in Health: Between Mobilization, Experimentation, Assessment and Data Protection 105Sarah SANDRÉ4.1. The appeal of connected objects in the field of health 1074.2. Complexity of rolling out connected objects 1184.3. Prospects: the humanities and social sciences remain too absent from the assessment of connected devices in healthcare 1274.4. References 128Chapter 5. Medical Care and Data: The Example of Nanomedicine in Europe 131Christian PAPILLOUD5.1. Satellization or influence by alliance 1335.2. Nanomedicine, the challenge of renewed influence 1355.3. Doubts and decisions 1385.4. From nanomedicine to precision medicine 1415.5. KETs, a new challenge for satellization 1445.6. Conclusion 1515.7. References 152Chapter 6. Sociopolitical Challenges of Digital Uses 159Geneviève VIDAL6.1. The digitalization of society 1616.2. Acceptability, ambivalence of uses 1756.3. Sociopolitical challenges of the relationship between healthcare and digital technology: conditional uses and the capacity to act 1836.4. References 188Conclusion 195Dominique CARRÉ, Geneviève VIDAL, Christian PAPILLOUD, Yanita ANDONOVA, Étienne HIEN and Sarah SANDRÉList of Authors 201Index 203