Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism

by Tina Sikka

Book Overview

This book critically examines contemporary health and wellness culture through the lens of personalization, genetification and functional foods. These developments have had a significant impact on the intersecting categories of gender, race, and class in light of the increasing adoption of digital health and surveillance technologies like MyFitnessPal, Lifesum, HealthyifyMe, and Fooducate. These three vectors of identity, when analysed in relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350202037
• ISBN13: 9781350202030
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"