Caregiving Carebots And Contagion

Author : Michael C. Brannigan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793649197
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion written by Michael C. Brannigan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you want to be cared for by a robot? Michael C. Brannigan’s Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion explores caring robots’ lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving. As our COVID-19 purgatory lingers on, caring robots will join our nursing and healthcare frontlines. Carebots can perform lifesaving tasks to minimize infection, safeguard vulnerable persons, and relieve caregivers of certain burdens. They also spark profound moral and existential questions: What is caring? How will we relate with each other? What does it mean to be human? Underscoring carebots' hands-on benefits, Brannigan also warns us of perils. They can be a dangerous lure in a culture that settles for substitutes and venerates the screen. Alerting us to the threatening prospect of carebots becoming our surrogate for interpersonal connection, he maintains they are not the culprits. The challenge lies in how we relate to them. While they beneficially complement our caregiving, carebots cannot replace human caring. Caring is a fundamentally human act and lies at the heart of ethics. As humans, we have a binding moral responsibility to care for the Other, and genuine caring demands our embodied, human-to-human presence.

Author : D. Robert MacDougall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498589960
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Righting Health Policy written by D. Robert MacDougall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Righting Health Policy, D. Robert MacDougall argues that bioethics needs but does not have adequate tools for justifying law and policy. Bioethics’ tools are mostly theories about what we owe each other. But justifying laws and policies requires more; at a minimum, it requires tools for explaining the legitimacy of actions intended to control or influence others. It consequently requires political, rather than moral, philosophy. After showing how bioethicists have consistently failed to use tools suitable for achieving their political aims, MacDougall develops an interpretation of Kant’s political philosophy. On this account, the legitimacy of health laws does not derive from the morality of the behaviors they require but derives instead from their role in securing our equal freedom from each other. MacDougall uses this Kantian account to show the importance of political philosophy for bioethics. First, he shows how evaluating kidney markets in terms of the legitimacy of prohibiting sales rather than the morality of selling kidneys reverses the widely accepted view that Kantian philosophy supports legally prohibiting markets. Second, MacDougall argues that an account of political authority is necessary for settling longstanding bioethics debates about the legal and even moral standards that should govern informed consent.

Author : Robert Braun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538158868
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Automobility Futures written by Robert Braun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an in-depth phenomenological and deconstructive analysis of the automobility imaginary, which is none other than the mundane automobility reality within which we dwell in everyday life. A successful transition to a post-automobility future will require new ways of thinking about and conceptualizing automobility, one of the most significant and powerful imaginaries of contemporary neo-liberalism. This book offers such a view by reconceptualizing automobility in its entirety as both an imaginary and a dreamscape. In order to address the challenges, externalities and tragedies that automobility has brought upon us, automobility, we argue, must end as we know it.

Author : Elyse Purcell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793624127
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Perfection written by Elyse Purcell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we owe our future children? How do advances in biomedical science bear on these obligations? How do capitalist incentives distort their execution? Advances in biotechnologies for human enhancement and designer babies appear to offer us new hope to control the fragility of human living. Some philosophers have argued that we have a moral imperative to use them, especially to eliminate disabilities. Elyse Purcell offers an opposing view, one guided by existential insights and Marxist reflections. Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being explores the effect global capitalism may have on the selection of traits for our future children and how the commercialization of these technologies may lead to the elimination of bodily diversity. Although philosophers have addressed the possible widening between the haves and have-nots, this book considers the role oppression and exploitation may play in enhancing bodies for profit. As a challenge to the global economy of debility, Purcell proposes the Solidarity view, which embraces human vulnerability and embodied difference. By reflecting on facets of the human condition, the Solidarity view challenges us to reject our conception of the good life as human perfection, and instead reconceive of the good as one’s self-realization through the interdependent mutual recognition and co-belonging with others.

Author : Shannon Vallor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019049851X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and the Virtues written by Shannon Vallor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree. Emerging technologies are reshaping our habits, practices, institutions, cultures and environments in increasingly rapid, complex and unpredictable ways that create profound risks and opportunities for human flourishing on a global scale. How can our future be protected in such challenging and uncertain conditions? How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond? This book locates a key to that future in the distant past: specifically, in the philosophical traditions of virtue ethics developed by classical thinkers from Aristotle and Confucius to the Buddha. Each developed a way of seeking the good life that equips human beings with the moral and intellectual character to flourish even in the most unpredictable, complex and unstable situations--precisely where we find ourselves today. Through an examination of the many risks and opportunities presented by rapidly changing technosocial conditions, Vallor makes the case that if we are to have any real hope of securing a future worth wanting, then we will need more than just better technologies. We will also need better humans. Technology and the Virtues develops a practical framework for seeking that goal by means of the deliberate cultivation of technomoral virtues: specific skills and strengths of character, adapted to the unique challenges of 21st century life, that offer the human family our best chance of learning to live wisely and well with emerging technologies.

Author : Robert Garner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783487267
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Turn in Animal Ethics written by Robert Garner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection of original essays focuses on the political dimension of the debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals.

Author : Michael Brannigan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780767424189
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics Across Cultures written by Michael Brannigan and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book was released on 2004-10-22 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new text/reader for Introduction to Ethics courses explores the rich ethical traditions of the West and the East.

Author : Melinda Hall
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498533493
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bioethics of Enhancement written by Melinda Hall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement includes a close reading and analysis of the last century of enhancement thinking and contemporary transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters of the obligation to pursue enhancement technology. With specific attention to the work of bioethicists Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, the book challenges the rhetoric and strategies of enhancement thinking. These include the desire to transcend the body and decide who should live in future generations through emerging technologies such as genetic selection. Hall provides new analyses rethinking both the philosophy of enhancement and disability, arguing that enhancement should be a matter of social and political interventions, not genetic and biological interventions. Hall concludes that human vulnerability and difference should be cherished rather than extinguished. This book will be of interest to academics working in bioethics and disability studies, along with those working in Continental philosophy (especially on Foucault).

Author : Sven Nyholm
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786612283
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humans and Robots written by Sven Nyholm and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can robots perform actions, make decisions, collaborate with humans, be our friends, perhaps fall in love, or potentially harm us? Even before these things truly happen, ethical and philosophical questions already arise. The reason is that we humans have a tendency to spontaneously attribute minds and “agency” to anything even remotely humanlike. Moreover, some people already say that robots should be our companions and have rights. Others say that robots should be slaves. This book tackles emerging ethical issues about human beings, robots, and agency head on. It explores the ethics of creating robots that are, or appear to be, decision-making agents. From military robots to self-driving cars to care robots or even sex robots equipped with artificial intelligence: how should we interpret the apparent agency of such robots? This book argues that we need to explore how human beings can best coordinate and collaborate with robots in responsible ways. It investigates ethically important differences between human agency and robot agency to work towards an ethics of responsible human-robot interaction.

Author : Jon Huer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761865519
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor Avoidance written by Jon Huer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor Avoidance is about work, something everyone hates, and something everyone longs to escape. At the same time, human nature is to sustain life that is physical, and thus constant labor is a necessity. This is what humanity, from Eden to our own post-industrial society, has always tried to reduce or avoid by making somebody else do it. Historically, this nature and origin of labor-avoidance is responsible for war, colonialism, slavery, and now, contract employment in market society. This book explores American capitalism and how labor (and the desire to escape it) has become responsible for so much human struggle and misery throughout history.