What is meant by the term technological imperative?
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She focuses especially on the "technological imperative and rescue medicine" that may lead to inappropriate action. The technological imperative appears to be integrated in our reasoning in a wide variety of ways. So far, the technological imperative has been discussed in relation to reduced responsibility. There is also another way in which the unknown can result in a technological imperative. Thus, this eagerness to apply technology can be interpreted as a technological imperative in health care. Similar reasoning ultimately resides behind the technological imperative that is part of contemporary biotechnology. It would be hard to find any stronger knock-down phrasing for the technological imperative. We would be subject to a personified technological imperative. What then, does this obligation mean with regard to the technological imperative? On the other hand, patients also appear to be subject to the technological imperative, because they cannot refuse opportunities that are offered to them. A self-imposed submission to a technological imperative in terms of neglected responsibility can be extremely dangerous. If, however, technology is regarded as an inescapable necessity, we might be reluctant to conclude that we are subject to a technological imperative (37). On the individual level, what has been conceived of as a technological imperative was explained by personal motives. This imperative can, however, be explained by a displacement of responsibility to the proximate organizational level, and is not a technological imperative. Even more, if the technological imperative is identified with the notion of the incomprehensibility of technology (26), then there certainly is a technological imperative. This can be another way of explaining the technological imperative. Thus, there are both a vast variety of descriptions of the technological imperative and many explanations of it. They reduce the institution's responsibility, and in relation to technology, this can be conceived of as a technological imperative. In other words, the technological imperative can be explained in terms of particular interests. For instance, if technological imperative is conceived of as technology being a powerful factor in the development of health care, it becomes hard to reject. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Citation metadataDocument controlsMain contentArticle Preview : My argument is this. Because of technology's success and dominance in medicine, our dependency on it has created a "technological imperative," and this imperative objectifies and frames people according to mechanistic rules. However, such a view of people lacks the ability to account for people's unique, moral, and spiritual dimensions. This aspect of the patient's identity requires an ethic that guides medical technology to serve the comprehensive purposes of human life; it needs a teleological ethic. The Ethical Dilemma of Using Technology in Healthcare The use of technology in healthcare can mean a stethoscope, needle, hammer, or scalpel. These instruments, over which we do not have moral quandaries, are natural extensions of the hands, ears, and eyes. However, sophisticated machines such as EKGs, MRIs, CAT Scans exercise diagnostic and therapeutic influence on patients that are more than natural extensions. They replace the user. (1) They discover and decipher information and some attempt correction and therapy. The ethical worries about technology are about it being an independent force from the user. Technology, undoubtedly, contributes significantly to healing, and this should continue, but, to be so successful, it by design treats the patient as an object explainable by algorithmic analyses. The user thus looks upon the patient in the same way that technology is applied upon the patient--organism following mechanistic laws so that the use of technology can yield measurable and quantifiable results. Of course, the chemical-physiological aspects of the person follow law-like patterns and hence are measurable and somewhat predictable. Yet, the laws cannot measure people's personal identity; that is, our sense of being the same person across time, our emotional makeup, and the defining relationships with others and the world. This personal aspect is as affected by disease, injury, and psychological duress as is the individual's chemical components. However, the more the use of technology succeeds, the more its users must objectify the patients, and, consequently, the more it either overlooks, ignores or deemphasizes the personal identity of patients. Here is the ethical dilemma. To contribute to people's health through technology, medicine must view patients as organisms measurable by nomological patterns (that is, law-like patterns). Because their success as healthcare providers depends on the successful application of technology, the providers may acknowledge the patient's personal aspects, but they cannot make them a primary focus of their treatments. In that technology, due to its accomplishments, dominates medical practices, it has also become domineering. (2) Medicine, thus, must view the patient in ways amenable to technological analysis and description. Technology's success generates a demand, that is, to continue to improve healthcare, we must increase the use of technology. This is the "technological imperative." (3) We are logically and professionally forced to think that if we do not increase the use of technology, we are not as committed to increasing the health and healing of patients. Subsequently, we anthropomorphically confer onto technology an agency. We say, "what does the instrument tell us" or "machines don't lie." Technology does not talk or tell lies.... Get Full Access Gale offers a variety of resources for education, lifelong learning, and academic research. Log in through your library to get access to full content and features! Access through your library Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2018 Alabama Academy of Science Source CitationGale Document Number: GALE|A603633321 What mechanism to control the growth of technology would be to?One mechanism to control the growth of technology would be to: - implement central planning.
What is technological imperative in healthcare?The technological imperative refers to the increased utilization of advanced technologies by physicians to "do everything possible" to extend the life of the individual prolonging the inevitability of death (Callahan, 2012, p. 456;Fuchs, 2011;Hofmann, 2002, p. 675).
What do you mean by technological determinism?Technological determinism (TD), simply put, is the idea that technology has important effects on our lives. This idea figures prominently in the popular imagination and political rhetoric, for example in the idea that the Internet is revolutionizing economy and society.
What is the general term for the delivery of medical care when the provider and patient are separated by distance?Virtual care (otherwise known as telehealth) refers to health care delivery, or related processes (such as education), where one or more of the participants are separated by distance, and information and communications technologies are used to overcome that distance.
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