Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion

This work explores caring robots' lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving.
As humans, we have a binding moral responsibility to care for the Other, and genuine caring demands our embodied, human-to-human presence.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Then, Now, and To Come
Chapter 1: Are Robots Made for This?
Chapter 2: Promise
Chapter 3: Peril
Chapter 4: What Is in a Face?
Chapter 5: Poise
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Michael C. Brannigan is adjunct professor of intercultural bioethics at Albany Medical College and adjunct professor of philosophy at Salve Regina University.

Summary

This work explores caring robots' lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving. As humans, we have a binding moral responsibility to care for the Other, and genuine caring demands our embodied, human-to-human presence.

Product details

• Authors: Michael C. Brannigan, Brannigan Michael C.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781793649188
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-918-8
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Revolutionary Bioethics
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Robotics, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics, Popular medicine & health, Ethics & moral philosophy, Health systems & services