The quantified self: closing the gap between general knowledge and particular case?
The article elucidates how the status that professionals ascribe to the body has vital implications for what they regard as relevant and how they interpret the information they have collected. On this ground, we challenge both the prevailing and tacitly accepted separation between the physical body and human experience and the view of knowledge underpinning EBM and PM. The growing molecularization of the body veils decisive sources of human illness.
This study shows the absence of age-associated changes in both urodynamic data and VBN parameters in a population of women with SUI and without any other disease. These findings reinforce the idea that chronological age does not strongly correlate with the physiological status.