Reframing Algorithms

This book provides a fully-fledged exploration of science and technology studies (STS) perspective applied to algorithms developed to support care processes. By concentrating on algorithmic technologies for supporting processes of social and health care, the book intersects topics connected to technoscientific innovation and specifically digital transformation for health care. By offering different attempts of deconstructing algorithmic technologies, the book provides a landmark reference for those interested in undertaking research focused on areas connected to algorithmic decision-making for health care. The book will be an invaluable reference for scholars interested in the STS debate and related fields (e.g.,humancomputer interaction, computer supported cooperative work, participatory design, and sociology of health and medicine). This book responds to a growing interest in the application of algorithms' to local and national care systems. The book balances theoretical and empirical analysis bringing together experienced and early-career scholars.

This book will be of interest to researchers in STS as well as healthcare professionals and managers as some of the topics covered help to critically reconsider some facets of planning through algorithmic technologies supporting the practice of healthcare and decision-making.

Utilises key concepts and ideas from STS for algorithmic decision making Applies and integrates a toolkit for the areas of health and social care Responds to a growing interest in the application of algorithms' to local and national care systems

Auteur

Francesco Miele, Ph.D., is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste (Italy).

Paolo Giardullo, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education & Applied Psychology, Section of Sociology, University of Padova (Italy).

Contenu

Chapter 1. The Encounters of Science and Technology Studies with Algorithms in the Analysis of Healthcare ( Francesco Miele and Paolo Giardullo ).- Part I: Approaches and Alternative Paths for Examining Algorithmic Technologies in Healthcare.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Inputs for Empirical Outputs: The Lenses of Science and Technology Studies from Digital Media for Exploring Algorithms in Healthcare ( Paolo Giardullo ).- Chapter 3. The Algorithmisation of Well-Being Promotion: Towards a Selective Paternalism ( Paolo Rossi and Lia Tirabeni ).- Chapter 4. Algorithmic Experience: Exploring the Potential of AI Technologies for Medical Knowledge Integration ( Lea Lösch and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak ).- Chapter 5. Caring for the Monstrous Algorithm: Attending to Wrinkly Worlds and Relationalities in an Algorithmic Society ( Francis Lee, Catharina Landström, and Karl Palmås ).- Part II: Algorithmic Technologies in Use in Healthcare: Expectations, Usages and Practices of Resistance.- Chapter 6. Being Informed About My Health Without Going to a Doctor's Appointment: Doctors' and Patients' Narratives About a Future with AI ( Francesco Miele, Carlos Godoy Jr.,and Welmoed K. van Deen ).- Chapter 7. Towards Experimental Implementations: Moving Emerging Articial Intelligence Technologies into Real-World Clinical Settings ( Mari Kannelønning, Miria Grisot, and Robin Williams ).- Chapter 8. Every Breath You Take, I'll Be Watching You. Explicit Surveillance and Algorithmic Countersur veillance in Healthcare ( Veronica Moretti and Alessandro Caliandro ).- Chapter 9. Looping for (Self)CarePersonal Digital Health Technology and Algorithmic Systems ( Henriette Langstrup and Bianca Jansky ).- Concluding Remarks: Algorithmic Presents, AI and STS ( Paolo Giardullo and Francesco Miele ).