ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the manifold ways in which human bodies have become increasingly datafied via the use of digital technologies for health and medical purposes. Digital health initiatives are the latest point in a long history of the use of devices for monitoring and visualising the human body in medicine and public health. In some discourses of digital health, the human genetic code is identified as one aspect of digitising the body, given that it represents embodiment as a code. Social media and self-representation is not only medical technologies that have contributed to new forms of digitised embodiment. Many people choose to datafy themselves by using digital self-tracking devices to collect detailed information about their bodies and behaviours. Like medical visualising technologies, digital self-tracking devices operate by delving inside the body, eliciting data on internal functioning and then rendering these data visible.
