Article ID: CBB424077022

Robots And Healthcare: The Deep Roots of a Technological Fix (2022)

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Lente, Dick van (Author)


Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Pages: 158-178


Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Special Issue: Tools to Generate or to Solve Crises? Perspectives on Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Language: English

This essay explores the tendency to over-estimate the potential of technological solutions which are being developed to deal with the ever-increasing demand for healthcare in western countries. It proposes an explanation of this tendency in terms of a cybernetic approach to illness and medical care. It interprets this tendency as a form of what, in the 1960s, came to be called a “technological fix,” and it explores the long history of such patterns of thought.

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Article Poser, Stefan (2022) Introduction: Tools to Generate or to Solve Crises? Perspectives on Robots and Artificial Intelligence. Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 9-14). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Johnston, Sean F.
Seising, Rudolf
Boden, Margaret A.
Bowman, Diana M.
Cordeschi, Roberto
Dumouchel, Paul
Journals
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Acta Historica Leopoldina
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
History and Technology
Research in the History of Technology
Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Publishers
Classiques Garnier
Harvard University Press
Kluwer
McGill-Queen's University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Artificial intelligence
Robots
Cybernetics
Computers and computing
Technology and society
Automation
People
Ashby, W. Ross
Clarke, Arthur C.
Craik, Kenneth James William
Frayn, Michael
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Walter, William Grey
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
France
Japan
Netherlands
London (England)
Institutions
United States. Department of Defense
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