Pols Jeannette
Department of General Practice, Section of Medical Ethics, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Nurs Philos. 2017 Jan;18(1). doi: 10.1111/nup.12154. Epub 2016 Oct 18.
This article is a written version of the lecture for the IPONS conference in Stockholm. The article starts from the claim that there is no such thing as technology, only different variations of technologies. These technologies, plural, all have their specific workings that we can only learn about by studying these empirically, by analysing the relations between people and their technologies. These relations are always unpredictable, as it is not given beforehand what values the participants pursue. Studying and understanding the workings of healthcare technology is a crucial task for nursing studies, as nurses are often key actors in making these devices work. The article hands the reader some tools to engage in the study of technologies in practice, using an empirical ethics approach.
本文是在斯德哥尔摩举行的IPONS会议讲座的文字记录。文章开篇指出，不存在单一的技术，只有技术的不同变体。这些复数形式的技术都有其特定的运行方式，我们只能通过实证研究，通过分析人与技术之间的关系来了解它们。这些关系总是不可预测的，因为参与者追求的价值并非预先确定。研究和理解医疗技术的运行方式是护理研究的一项关键任务，因为护士往往是使这些设备发挥作用的关键角色。本文运用实证伦理学方法，为读者提供了一些在实践中研究技术的工具。
