Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis
In the context of the care crisis in modern medicine, the existential needs of patients are not sufficiently satisfied. One idea to address the crisis is that physicians should be educated to be virtuous. This suggestion is inadequate because it does not take into account the role of (non-)human fac...
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University of Tabriz, Faculty of Literature and Forigen Languages
2022-12-01
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| description | In the context of the care crisis in modern medicine, the existential needs of patients are not sufficiently satisfied. One idea to address the crisis is that physicians should be educated to be virtuous. This suggestion is inadequate because it does not take into account the role of (non-)human factors, including technologies. The paper focuses on online caring forums, arguing that they are technological factors that can play the role of “focal things”, in which the members gather together to do a care-related focal practice. We study empirically the online forums of Ninisite, a popular Persian website on pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting, and suggest that these forums shape focal practices that are helpful in alleviating the care crisis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-931168c8ff0749f2a1dd5727259f53e02023-09-02T09:44:50ZengUniversity of Tabriz, Faculty of Literature and Forigen LanguagesJournal of Philosophical Investigations2251-79602423-44192022-12-01164117418810.22034/jpiut.2022.44055.274714120Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care CrisisMahdi Khalili0Saeedeh Babaei1PhD Candidate of Philosophy of Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IranPhD Candidate of Philosophy of Science, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, IranIn the context of the care crisis in modern medicine, the existential needs of patients are not sufficiently satisfied. One idea to address the crisis is that physicians should be educated to be virtuous. This suggestion is inadequate because it does not take into account the role of (non-)human factors, including technologies. The paper focuses on online caring forums, arguing that they are technological factors that can play the role of “focal things”, in which the members gather together to do a care-related focal practice. We study empirically the online forums of Ninisite, a popular Persian website on pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting, and suggest that these forums shape focal practices that are helpful in alleviating the care crisis.https://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_14120_7e6a9437ececc797f9652b4d610ae147.pdfcaretechnologyonline forumsfocal thing and practiceninisite |
| spellingShingle | Mahdi Khalili Saeedeh Babaei Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis Journal of Philosophical Investigations care technology online forums focal thing and practice ninisite |
| title | Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis |
| title_full | Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis |
| title_fullStr | Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis |
| title_short | Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis |
| title_sort | online forums can alleviate the care crisis |
| topic | care technology online forums focal thing and practice ninisite |
| url | https://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_14120_7e6a9437ececc797f9652b4d610ae147.pdf |
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