Health and Wellbeing

Technological innovations in the health field, assumed in its broadest sense, start a process from which it draws advantage individuals, health service providers and the entire population through the acquisition of new modes of organizing and managing wellbeing and public health. The more and more pervasive Internet, always connected individuals and digital technologies impact on health and disease, health prevention and promotion, organization of medicine and healthcare, social policy, gender issues, equity and social justice, etc., puzzling its dimensions. Digital Health, eHealth, Medicine 2.0, Health 2.0 are the various terms used to call this kind of revolution driven by the use of newer digital medical and health related technologies. In the “digital society” health and wellness domains are deeply affected at the point that classic theories and paradigms barely succeed in adapting to the new scenario. The development of new technologies and their incorporation into social worlds and concepts of selfhood need to be investigated, analyzed and understood. But from which theoretical perspective? The chapter takes into account a series of digital transformations raising the sub discipline “Digital sociology”.