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SPECIAL SECTION: Health surveillance and everyday life

Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies

Pages 393-403 | Received 27 Oct 2012, Accepted 06 Apr 2013, Published online: 03 May 2013

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