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Robots won't save Japan : an ethnography of eldercare automation

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The culture and politics of health care workPublication details: New York : Cornell University Press, ©2023Description: xi, 182 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781501768040
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Robots won't save JapanDDC classification:
  • 362.60 23/eng/20221021 WRI-R
LOC classification:
  • HV1484.J32
Contents:
Crisis and Care Robots -- Developing Robots and Designing Algorithmic Care -- Portrait of a Care Home -- Hug: Reconfiguring Lifting -- Paro: Reconfiguring Communication -- Pepper: Reconfiguring Recreation -- Beyond Care Robots.
Summary: "The book is an anthropological examination of the Japanese government's ongoing attempts to develop and implement robots as a solution to its crisis in elder care"--
List(s) this item appears in: "Field", Archive & Ethnography
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Books Books IIITD General Stacks Social Science 362.60 WRI-R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 19/03/2025 011885
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Crisis and Care Robots -- Developing Robots and Designing Algorithmic Care -- Portrait of a Care Home -- Hug: Reconfiguring Lifting -- Paro: Reconfiguring Communication -- Pepper: Reconfiguring Recreation -- Beyond Care Robots.

"The book is an anthropological examination of the Japanese government's ongoing attempts to develop and implement robots as a solution to its crisis in elder care"--

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