Digital health: critical and cross-disciplinary perspectives

Abstract

blems of health and wellbeing, particularly for those with some awareness of the post-structuralist and continental philosophy that broadly informs the new-materialist assemblage framework. Those without such familiarity may initially find their ontological preconceptions challenged, but this is not to say that it is an insurmountable task for the interested reader. The book makes efforts to outline its conceptual lineage and its contributions without unreasonable assumptions about its audience. Those with existing predispositions toward such theoretical terrain may find the book of more immediate interest and benefit, supplementing, expanding, and challenging their own conceptual commitments. That said, any interested scholar would find this text a useful inclusion in their reading, if not for the sake of applying it to their own work, then to better understand how others are drawing upon the emerging rich theoretical terrain loosely assembled under the various labels of post-structuralism, new-materialism, post-humanism and assemblage theory.