Health Praxis in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Diagnostics, Caregiving and Reimagining the Role(s) of Healthcare Practitioners

Abstract

Scholars and practitioners from across the allied health disciplines have commented on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) as an adjunct for clinical diagnosis and prognosis. Few have attempted to make sense of AI as a communicating and deliberating agent in health praxis. To fill this gap, this chapter builds on the works of Atul Gawande, Eric Topol, Ruha Benjamin, Safiya Noble, Athena du Pré, Barbara Overton and others to offer a rhetorical-deliberative framework for reconceptualizing AI as a fully realized member of the healthcare team. Taking this view of AI provides a pathway for humanizing the machinic attributes of 21st century technological medicine while simultaneously (re)humanizing practitioners, patients and the overall medical ecology they inhabit and depend upon for cultivating health and well-being. Humanizing health praxis in this way may augment the quality of healthcare delivery and outcomes as we continue our journey with the artificial beings that do and will inhabit our world.

Ähnliche Arbeiten