日本机器人与超越人类护理的全球纠葛

本书深入剖析了日本护理机器人发展的历程与脉络，并独具慧眼地揭示其对全球医疗体系的深远影响。作者亲身走入日本护理机构，与机器人专家并肩作战，细腻观察机器人如何无缝融入人类护理的日常。他敏锐地洞察到，护理机器人已不再仅是冰冷的技术，而是深刻地改变了人与机器、人与人之间的关系，引发了关于人性、尊严与科技伦理的深刻反思。本书透过对日本、丹麦、德国等国的跨文化比较，深入探讨了护理机器人如何颠覆传统的治疗模式，并催生出全新的护理理念。同时，本书前瞻性地探讨了在后人类时代，技术创新与人文关怀如何共生共荣，共同塑造未来护理的蓝图。

作者 Shawn Bender 是美国狄金森学院 (Dickinson College) 东亚研究副教授。

"Bender moves deftly between smart, comprehensive storytelling, cultural contextualization, and theory while putting forth an argument about the 'entanglements' that robotic technology builds on (and capitalizes from) the iterative feedback from users. Well-written and sharply observed, Feeling Machines captures the reader from beginning to end."

―Anne Allison, Duke University

"This fascinating ethnography takes us on a global tour of the use of care robots, in practice. Bender shows how these robots carry visions of the future, but the great strength of this book is its focus on the present, where he expertly traces the caring relationships and feedback circuits that these robots have already entered into."

―Nick Seaver, Tufts University

"Japan has been a center for the use of technology in mental health, and particularly in senior care. This pioneering ethnography confronts us with crucial questions about our future: What is it to create robots for caring?"

―Sherry Turkle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology