Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion

The book takes seriously the lifesaving benefits that caring robots may provide during contagion, and then weighs those benefits against the threat such machines pose to interpersonal engagement.

Brannigan argues that people carry a binding moral responsibility to care for one another, and that genuine care depends on embodied, human-to-human presence. The argument therefore asks what is lost when machines take on caring roles.

The book suits readers interested in ethics, technology and health care who want a considered view of robots in care settings.

Bibliographic details: published by Lexington Books, with the ISBN-13 9781793649188.