Technologies of Care: Robot Caregivers in Science and Fiction

IF 0.3 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI:10.3390/h12060132
Silvana Colella
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In the field of elderly care, robot caregivers are garnering increased attention. This article discusses the robotisation of care from a dual perspective. The first part presents an overview of recent scholarship on the use of robots in eldercare, focusing mostly on scientific evidence about the responses of older adults and caregivers. The second part turns to narrative evidence, providing a close reading of Andromeda Romano-Lax’s Plum Rains (2018), a speculative novel set in Japan in 2029, which explores the implications—ethical, affective, social—of communities of care that include non-human agents. My argument is twofold: (1) although science and fiction operate according to different models of knowledge production, considering narrative insights alongside scientific ones can enlarge our understanding of the complexities of robotic care; (2) hitherto overlooked in literary studies, Plum Rains deserves attention for its nuanced representation of a hybrid model of care, which does not discard robotic assistance on the basis of humanist arguments, nor does it endorse techno-solutionism, reminding readers that the fantasy of robots that care is fuelled by the reality of devalued human care work.
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护理技术:科幻小说中的机器人护理者
在老年人护理领域,机器人看护越来越受到关注。这篇文章从两个角度讨论了护理的机器人化。第一部分概述了最近在老年人护理中使用机器人的奖学金,主要集中在老年人和照顾者的反应的科学证据上。第二部分转向叙事证据,提供了对Andromeda Romano-Lax的梅雨(2018)的仔细阅读,这是一部以2029年日本为背景的投机小说,探讨了包括非人类代理人在内的护理社区的伦理、情感和社会含义。我的观点是双重的:(1)尽管科学和小说根据不同的知识生产模式运作,但将叙事见解与科学见解结合起来可以扩大我们对机器人护理复杂性的理解;(2)迄今为止在文学研究中被忽视的是,《梅雨》值得注意的是,它细致入微地呈现了一种混合护理模式,这种模式既没有基于人文主义的论点抛弃机器人的帮助,也没有支持技术解决方案主义,它提醒读者,机器人护理的幻想是由人类护理工作贬值的现实推动的。
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