ArticleSociology of health & illness2023
Knowing (with) the body: Sensory knowing in contraceptive self-tracking.
Article in Sociology of health & illness, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization.Social studies of science · 2025Article
- 'I Do Take the Number Seriously, but I Don't Let My Moods Depend on It': Negotiating Self-Tracking Data With People Living With Long COVID in the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Postfeminist Healthism: Understanding the Gendering of Healthism Using Menstrual Tracking Apps as an Example.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- mHealth technologies for pregnancy prevention: A challenge for patient-centred contraceptive counselling in Dutch general practice.The European journal of general practice · 2024Article
- When chronicity meets cyclicity: The cultivation of embodied knowledge and selfhood by cis-gender women with cystic fibrosis.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2024Article
- Analyzing User Reviews of the First Digital Contraceptive: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Knowing (with) the body: Sensory knowing in contraceptive self-tracking.Sociology of health & illness · 2023Article
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Abstract
Scholars have criticised reproductive self-tracking software applications (apps) for reducing embodied experiences to objective quantifications and leading to user self-alienation. Building on scholarly work that underscores the sensory and affective dimension of self-tracking, this ethnographic study explores how users of contraceptive self-tracking apps come to know their bodies during their everyday tracking practices. By relating tracking data to embodied experiences and relating their experiences back to the data, users produce knowledge of their own lived hormonal physiology. Users learn to articulate how their body feels and acts, foregrounding their body as an instrument of knowing alongside technical devices used. Users also articulate how their body is affected by everyday factors such as personal behaviours, diet, sleep and stress, thereby enacting what I call situated health. By foregrounding people's sensory and affective engagements with their data and their bodies through self-tracking, this study contributes to understanding how reproductive self-tracking may be meaningful to users as well as encourages a move beyond the hierarchical opposition between 'objective' numerical data and embodied, lived experiences.
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