BIO
Cheri Lynne Carr is Associate Professor of Philosophy at LaGuardia Community College. Her research integrates feminist ethics with Deleuzo-Guattarian inspired Philosophy for Children. Her recently published book, Deleuze’s Kantian Ethos: Critique as a Way of Life, explores the potential for a new form of ethical life based on the ideal of critique as the self-perpetuating evaluation of values (Edinburgh, 2018). The volume she co-edited, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism, is now available from Bloomsbury Press (2019).
TITLE
“On Sharing Medical Decision Making with Machines”
ABSTRACT
The concept of autonomy has become axiomatic in contemporary Western medical ethics, both philosophically and legally. Beauchamp and Childress (2009) influentially defined autonomous decisions as those made free from controlling forces, intentionally, and with substantial understanding. In medicine, this translates into a responsibility on the part of healthcare professionals to respect and enable their patients’ ability to make such decisions about their own medical care. However, increasing reliance on complex technological interventions in medical care – particularly the now routine use of algorithms for the diagnosis and treatment of patients – are inspiring an overdue conversation about the definition of autonomy, what (and who) we value, and how to best meet our collective healthcare needs in a post-climate crisis, post-digital revolution world. By interrogating these questions with a posthuman lens, I argue that by rethinking autonomy as a narrative form of positioning and redesigning algorithms with sensitivity to bias (both human and non-human), we can create a shared decision making model that includes machines and the environment while simultaneously advancing healthcare justice.
EVENT
NYU Global Posthuman 2020
Cheri Lynne Carr is Associate Professor of Philosophy at LaGuardia Community College. Her research integrates feminist ethics with Deleuzo-Guattarian inspired Philosophy for Children. Her recently published book, Deleuze’s Kantian Ethos: Critique as a Way of Life, explores the potential for a new form of ethical life based on the ideal of critique as the self-perpetuating evaluation of values (Edinburgh, 2018). The volume she co-edited, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism, is now available from Bloomsbury Press (2019).
TITLE
“On Sharing Medical Decision Making with Machines”
ABSTRACT
The concept of autonomy has become axiomatic in contemporary Western medical ethics, both philosophically and legally. Beauchamp and Childress (2009) influentially defined autonomous decisions as those made free from controlling forces, intentionally, and with substantial understanding. In medicine, this translates into a responsibility on the part of healthcare professionals to respect and enable their patients’ ability to make such decisions about their own medical care. However, increasing reliance on complex technological interventions in medical care – particularly the now routine use of algorithms for the diagnosis and treatment of patients – are inspiring an overdue conversation about the definition of autonomy, what (and who) we value, and how to best meet our collective healthcare needs in a post-climate crisis, post-digital revolution world. By interrogating these questions with a posthuman lens, I argue that by rethinking autonomy as a narrative form of positioning and redesigning algorithms with sensitivity to bias (both human and non-human), we can create a shared decision making model that includes machines and the environment while simultaneously advancing healthcare justice.
EVENT
NYU Global Posthuman 2020
