AI Medical Compendium Journal:
Sociology of health & illness

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The promise of artificial intelligence in health: Portrayals of emerging healthcare technologies.

Sociology of health & illness
Emerging technologies of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) promise to advance many industries. Healthcare is a key locus for new developments, where operational improvements are magnified by the bigger-picture promise o...

Valuing good health care: How medical doctors, scientists and patients relate ethical challenges with artificial intelligence decision-making support tools in prostate cancer diagnostics to good health care.

Sociology of health & illness
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in health care to improve diagnostics and treatment. Decision-making tools intended to help professionals in diagnostic processes are developed in a variety of medical fields. Despite the imagined ben...

Making robots matter in dementia care: Conceptualising the triadic interaction between caregiver, resident and robot animal.

Sociology of health & illness
While previous research studies have focused on either caregivers' or residents' perception and use of social robots, this article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of joint activities in triadic human-robot interaction. The symptomatol...

How artificial intelligence is reshaping the autonomy and boundary work of radiologists. A qualitative study.

Sociology of health & illness
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical practice is spreading, especially in technologically dense fields such as radiology, which could consequently undergo profound transformations in the near future. This article aims to qualita...

The entwinement of policy, design and care scripts: Providing alternative choice-dependency situations with care robots.

Sociology of health & illness
The use of robots to assist feeding has become important for people with an impaired arm function. Yet, despite large-scale dissemination strategies, it has proven difficult to sustain the use of this technology. This ethnographic study draws on the ...

Towards a Sociology of Healthcare Robots.

Sociology of health & illness
We propose a sociological approach to healthcare robots that emphasises the heterogeneous ethics of mutual labour and the complex definitions of care that emerge through robot design/deployment. This argument is the product of a narrative literature ...