Search results for "Care ethics"
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Responses to vulnerability : care ethics and the technologisation of eldercare
2020
This article argues for a re-conceptualisation of care relations and uses the re-conceptualisation to scrutinise the way in which technology is adopted in eldercare practices. First, it draws on the definition of care as attentiveness to vulnerability, as used in the tradition of care ethics. Second, it specifies four essential aspects of care relations: relationality, dyadic mutuality, corporeality and devotion. Third, using socio-technical and phenomenological perspectives, care relations are contrasted with the idea of intertwining technological and human actors in care practices. Finally, using two adaptations of telecare as examples, the essential aspects of care relations are shown to…
Care Ethics in Universities: Beyond an Easy “Add and Stir” Solution
2019
espanolEl trabajo de Nel Noddings ha representado un profundo desafio para el pensamiento androcentrico en filosofia de la educacion. El documento plantea la cuestion de si la etica del cuidado podria agregarse a las politicas universitarias. Para lograr este objetivo, se explora si la incorporacion de la etica del cuidado en las politicas universitarias transformaria la orientacion de la investigacion, la administracion universitaria y la experiencia de aprendizaje en tu totalidad. Mas adelante, el documento analiza las implicaciones del significado de la etica del cuidado de Noddings como un via para abordar la moralidad aplicada a los entornos universitarios. Finalmente, el articulo conc…
Robots responding to care needs? : A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental ass…
2020
Twenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care Giver’, a multitasking personal robot assistant for everyday care needs in old age. In this article, we discuss how this vision of omnipotent care robots has influenced the design strategies of care robotics, the development of R&D initiatives and ethics research on use of care robots. Despite the expectations of robots revolutionizing care of older people, the role of robots in human care has remained marginal. The value of world trade in service robots, including care robots, is rather small. We argue that the implementation of robots in care is n…