نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکتری فلسفه علم، دانشگاه صنعتی شریف، تهران، ایران
2 دانشجوی دکتری فلسفه علم، پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی، تهران، ایران
چکیده
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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عنوان مقاله [English]
Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis
نویسندگان [English]
- Mahdi Khalili 1
- Saeedeh Babaei 2
1 PhD Candidate of Philosophy of Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2 PhD Candidate of Philosophy of Science, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran
چکیده [English]
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.
کلیدواژهها [English]
- care
- technology
- online forums
- focal thing and practice
- Ninisite
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