Ethical Smart Care - Policy, Design, and Everyday Use

This book explores the emerging ethics of smart care, identifies key moments in the design, implementation, and use of smart healthcare tools with ethical connotations, and considers how we can steer smart innovations to maximize the work they can do for good and minimize the risks of inadvertently causing harm.

List of contents

• 1: Introducing Smart Care, Dementia, and Care Ethics


• 2: The Problem of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare


• 3: Infrastructural Ethics of Smart Care


• 4: Designing Ethics into Infrastructures


• 5: Care Ethics and Smart Care


• 6: Lived Experience of Smart Care


• 7: Conclusion: Can Smart Care Be Ethical?

About the author

Christine Hine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey. Her research explores social and ethical dimensions of the development and use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in relation to care at home. Her work includes Research Methods for Digital Work and Organization, edited with Gillian Symon and Katrina Pritchard, Ethnography for the Internet, and Virtual Ethnography. Her article 'Strategies for Reflexive Ethnography in the Smart Home' won the 2021 SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence in Sociology.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Hine, Hine Christine
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 08.09.2025
• EAN: 9780197764497
• ISBN: 978-0-19-776449-7
• Illustrations: 2 figures and 1 table
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Artificial Intelligence, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Home Care, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies