Good relations with technology: Empirical ethics and aesthetics in care

This article is a written version of the lecture for the IPONS conference in Stockholm. The article starts from the claim that there is no such thing as technology, only different variations of technologies. These technologies, plural, all have their specific workings that we can only learn about by...

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Main Author: Pols, Jeannette 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2017
In: Nursing philosophy
Year: 2017, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-7
Further subjects:B Ethnography
B empirical ethics
B Technology
B Aesthetics
B Care
B Nursing Theory
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Summary:This article is a written version of the lecture for the IPONS conference in Stockholm. The article starts from the claim that there is no such thing as technology, only different variations of technologies. These technologies, plural, all have their specific workings that we can only learn about by studying these empirically, by analysing the relations between people and their technologies. These relations are always unpredictable, as it is not given beforehand what values the participants pursue. Studying and understanding the workings of healthcare technology is a crucial task for nursing studies, as nurses are often key actors in making these devices work. The article hands the reader some tools to engage in the study of technologies in practice, using an empirical ethics approach.
ISSN:1466-769X
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing philosophy
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/nup.12154