Biosensing Networks: Sense-Making in Consumer Genomics and Ovulation Tracking

Mette Kragh-Furbo; Joann Wilkinson; Margaret Mary Elizabeth Mort; Celia Mary Roberts; Adrian Mackenzie

Biosensing Networks: Sense-Making in Consumer Genomics and Ovulation Tracking

Mette Kragh-Furbo, Joann Wilkinson, Margaret Mary Elizabeth Mort, Celia Mary Roberts, Adrian Mackenzie

Sociology

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How do individuals make sense of their biosensor data? Focusing on two different health biosensors – an ovulation monitor and the consumer gene test - we discuss how individuals interpret their biosensor data by engaging in exchanges on online forums. Here, participants share and discuss ovulation patterns and genetic susceptibilities by drawing on a range of materials. We argue that it is through these biosensing networks that genetic and ovulation data become meaningful, and it is through this process that the biosensing body is acquired. We show how discussion and speculation, artefacts and body sensations, anticipations and corporeal imaginaries are part of what constitute and hold together the biosensing body.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Quantified Lives and Vital Data
Subtitle of host publication	Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices
Editors	Rebecca Lynch, Conor Farrington
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
Chapter	3
Pages	47-69
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9781349952359
ISBN (Print)	9781349952342, 9781349957699
Publication status	Published - 18 Oct 2017

Publication series

Name	Health, Technology and Society
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN (Print)	2946-3386
ISSN (Electronic)	2946-3378

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Kragh-Furbo, M., Wilkinson, J., Mort, M. M. E., Roberts, C. M., & Mackenzie, A. (2017). Biosensing Networks: Sense-Making in Consumer Genomics and Ovulation Tracking. In R. Lynch, & C. Farrington (Eds.), Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices (pp. 47-69). (Health, Technology and Society). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-349-95235-9_3

Kragh-Furbo, Mette ; Wilkinson, Joann ; Mort, Margaret Mary Elizabeth et al. / Biosensing Networks : Sense-Making in Consumer Genomics and Ovulation Tracking. Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices. editor / Rebecca Lynch ; Conor Farrington. London : Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2017. pp. 47-69 (Health, Technology and Society).

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Biosensing Networks: Sense-Making in Consumer Genomics and Ovulation Tracking. / Kragh-Furbo, Mette; Wilkinson, Joann; Mort, Margaret Mary Elizabeth et al.
Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices. ed. / Rebecca Lynch; Conor Farrington. London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2017. p. 47-69 (Health, Technology and Society).

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