Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol
December 2024
Welfare technology (WT), defined as digital technology enabling individuals to live securely, actively and independently at home, is often viewed as a solution to care resource shortages. This solution discourse has increasingly been problematised, and ethical issues specifically connected to WT have emerged, e.g.
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August 2024
Lévinas and Derrida speak of the ontological context of human relationships in the context of the absolute priority of the Other and the unconditional law of hospitality. This has direct implications for doctor-patient relationships in the context of health care. This paper explores these philosophical and practical implications in light of a paradox that exists in all hospitality: that hostility is inevitably intertwined with hospitality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The discourse surrounding medical artificial intelligence (AI) often focuses on narratives that either hype the technology's potential or predict dystopian futures. AI narratives have a significant influence on the direction of research, funding, and public opinion and thus shape the future of medicine.
Objective: The paper aims to offer critical reflections on AI narratives, with a specific focus on medical AI, and to raise awareness as to how people working with medical AI talk about AI and discharge their "narrative responsibility.
In Mediterranean countries, late-sown durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum) may face waterlogging (WL) at early stages.
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