Self-tracking refers to all kinds of ways to measuring and analyzing one’s biological condition. Self-trackers use various kinds of mobile technologies (smart phones, bands, buttons, rings etc.) and applications. Using ...

The aim of this paper is to present the main discourses controlling a pregnant body – biomedical and aesthetic and their internalisation. The first is related to the medicalization of the body during pregnancy and focuses ...

In many countries we are observing now an increase of fashion for running and in connection with the participation of athletes in various running events – marathons, halfmarathons, ultramarathons. Running events become ...

The article presents the results of qualitative research on the beliefs and health behaviors of young people which turned out to be convergent with the ideology of healthism. Young people are convinced of individual ...

Men’s bodies are subject into the process of medicalization similarly to women’s bodies. Although dynamics of those processes in men and in women is different and the history of man’s medicalization significantly shorter ...

In this text I present the results of research conducted as part of the project “Health in the opinions of children – childhood studies perspective” conducted by the Interdisciplinary Team for Childhood Studies at the ...

The article is based on in-depth interviews conducted with customers of diet food deliveries. It aims at investigating the motivations of this service’s clients for using the service. It also makes an attempt to reveal, ...

The subject of the present analysis are health behaviors among women between 25 and 59 years of age and their determinants, which, simultaneously, constitute the social context for cervical cancer prevention in Poland. ...

These days the topics of health and beauty care have become particularly interesting for people. Consequently, health and beauty treatments are becoming increasingly more popular. The aim of this paper is to analyse aspects ...