TY - JOUR
T1 - Networked biopower
T2 - personalized healthcare in a datafied world
AU - Ashuri, Tamar
AU - van Voorst, Roanne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - This study fucuses on data-driven personalization in healthcare (DDPH), an umbrella term for collection, storage, and analysis of big individual data with a view to providing patient-specific healthcare solutions, including customized treatments, and disease prevention. Interviews with prominent figures in public healthcare in Israel and Estonia revealed their socio-technical imaginaries regarding DDPH trends. The analysis draws on the Foucauldian conceptualization of biopower, as well as on insights into the dynamics of the networked society. Results suggest that the imaginaries of healthcare elite translate onto new configurations of biopower–termed here ‘networked biopower’–which are fostered by DDPH initiatives. They suggest furthermore that ‘networked biopower’ appears to be utilized by healthcare elite to govern and control, through novel medical surveillance and gazing, both individuals and entire populations.
AB - This study fucuses on data-driven personalization in healthcare (DDPH), an umbrella term for collection, storage, and analysis of big individual data with a view to providing patient-specific healthcare solutions, including customized treatments, and disease prevention. Interviews with prominent figures in public healthcare in Israel and Estonia revealed their socio-technical imaginaries regarding DDPH trends. The analysis draws on the Foucauldian conceptualization of biopower, as well as on insights into the dynamics of the networked society. Results suggest that the imaginaries of healthcare elite translate onto new configurations of biopower–termed here ‘networked biopower’–which are fostered by DDPH initiatives. They suggest furthermore that ‘networked biopower’ appears to be utilized by healthcare elite to govern and control, through novel medical surveillance and gazing, both individuals and entire populations.
KW - big (individual) data
KW - biopolitics
KW - biopower
KW - networked society
KW - Personalized medicine
KW - surveillance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85212753916&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2442411
DO - 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2442411
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85212753916
SN - 1369-118X
JO - Information Communication and Society
JF - Information Communication and Society
ER -