Reframing Algorithms

STS perspectives to Healthcare Automation
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-52048-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

This book provides a fully-fledged exploration of science and technology studies (STS) perspective applied to algorithms developed to support care processes. By concentrating on algorithmic technologies for supporting processes of social and health care, the book intersects topics connected to technoscientific innovation and specifically digital transformation for health care. By offering different attempts of deconstructing algorithmic technologies, the book provides a landmark reference for those interested in undertaking research focused on areas connected to  algorithmic decision-making for health care. The book will be an invaluable reference for scholars interested in the STS debate and related fields (e.g.,human–computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work, participatory design, and sociology of health and medicine). This book responds to a growing interest in the application of algorithms’ to local and national care systems. The book balances theoretical and empirical analysis bringing together experienced and early-career scholars.

This book will be of interest to researchers in STS as well as healthcare professionals and managers as some of the topics covered help to critically reconsider some facets of planning through algorithmic technologies supporting the practice of healthcare and decision-making.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giardullo, Paolo

Miele, Francesco

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. The Encounters of Science and Technology Studies with Algorithms in the Analysis of Healthcare ().-  Part I: Approaches and Alternative Paths for Examining Algorithmic Technologies in Healthcare.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Inputs for Empirical Outputs: The Lenses of Science and Technology Studies from Digital Media for Exploring Algorithms in Healthcare ().- Chapter 3. The Algorithmisation of Well-Being Promotion: Towards a Selective Paternalism ().- Chapter 4. Algorithmic Experience: Exploring the Potential of AI Technologies for Medical Knowledge Integration ().- Chapter 5. Caring for the Monstrous Algorithm: Attending to Wrinkly Worlds and Relationalities in an Algorithmic Society ().- Part II: Algorithmic Technologies in Use in Healthcare: Expectations, Usages and Practices of Resistance.- Chapter 6. “Being Informed About My Health Without Going to a Doctor’s Appointment:” Doctors’ and Patients’  Narratives About a Future with AI ().- Chapter 7. Towards Experimental Implementations: Moving Emerging Arti?cial Intelligence Technologies into Real-World Clinical Settings ().- Chapter 8. Every Breath You Take, I’ll Be Watching You. Explicit Surveillance and Algorithmic Countersur veillance in Healthcare ().- Chapter 9. Looping for (Self)Care—Personal Digital Health Technology and Algorithmic Systems ().- Concluding Remarks: Algorithmic Presents, AI and STS ().

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco Miele, Ph.D., is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste (Italy).

Paolo Giardullo, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education & Applied Psychology, Section of Sociology, University of Padova (Italy).