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The Moral Difference between Faces & FaceTime

Kyle E. Karches

Hastings Center Report 53 (4):16-25 (2023)

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The Burnout Society.Byung-Chul Han - 2015 - De Gruyter.details Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 29 citations
(1 other version)Against the iDoctor: why artificial intelligence should not replace physician judgment.Kyle E. Karches - 2018 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 39 (2):91-110.details Experts in medical informatics have argued for the incorporation of ever more machine-learning algorithms into medical care. As artificial intelligence research advances, such technologies raise the possibility of an “iDoctor,” a machine theoretically capable of replacing the judgment of primary care physicians. In this article, I draw on Martin Heidegger’s critique of technology to show how an algorithmic approach to medicine distorts the physician–patient relationship. Among other problems, AI cannot adapt guidelines according to the individual patient’s needs. In response to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
(1 other version)Against the iDoctor: why artificial intelligence should not replace physician judgment.Kyle E. Karches - 2018 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 39 (2):91-110.details Experts in medical informatics have argued for the incorporation of ever more machine-learning algorithms into medical care. As artificial intelligence research advances, such technologies raise the possibility of an “iDoctor,” a machine theoretically capable of replacing the judgment of primary care physicians. In this article, I draw on Martin Heidegger’s critique of technology to show how an algorithmic approach to medicine distorts the physician–patient relationship. Among other problems, AI cannot adapt guidelines according to the individual patient’s needs. In response to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Cybermedicine and the moral integrity of the physician–patient relationship.Keith Bauer - 2004 - Ethics and Information Technology 6 (2):83-91.details Some critiques of cybermedicine claim that it is problematic because it fails to create physician–patient relationships. But, electronically mediated encounters do create such relationships. The issue is the nature and quality of those relationships and whether they are conducive to good patient care and meet the ethical ideals and standards of medicine. In this paper, I argue that effective communication and compassion are, in most cases, necessary for the establishment of trusting and morally appropriate physician–patient relationships. The creation of these (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 8 citations

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