What if “healthy” is not all I want to be?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F25%3A00639098" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/25:00639098 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00961-x" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00961-x</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00961-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13347-025-00961-x</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What if “healthy” is not all I want to be?
Original language description
Health consciousness has become unavoidable, and with it an increase in the preoccupation to live according to the mandates of a specific lifestyle that promises to bring health, making us live better and longer. The rapid advances in AI-powered technologies contribute to the gathering and processing of millions of data points reflecting our health, which can be used to design more personalised plans that assist individuals in pursuing a healthier lifestyle. The result is a narrow conception of health that focuses on quantifiable data that can be analysed to generate a model of a healthy subject, who is, consequently, obsessed with optimising each of the variables that contribute to their health. This paper examines how technology delimits and prescribes specific concepts of health and well-being, being especially attentive to how the incorporation of AI into existing tracking medical devices exacerbates a quantified and reductive (self) interpretation of the individual.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophy & Technology
ISSN
2210-5433
e-ISSN
2210-5441
Volume of the periodical
38
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
130
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105016730978