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020			_a9781501768040
082			_a362.60952 _bWRI
100			_aWright, James _914153
245			_aRobots won't save Japan: _ban ethnography of eldercare automation
260			_bCornell University Press _aNew York _c2023
300			_axi, 182 p.
365			_aUSD _b46.95
520			_aRobots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, rising demand for eldercare, and a critical shortage of care workers. Drawing on ethnographic research at key sites of Japanese robot development and implementation, James Wright reveals how such devices are likely to transform the practices, organization, meanings, and ethics of caregiving if implemented at scale. This new form of techno-welfare state that Japan is prototyping involves a reconfiguration of care that deskills and devalues care work and reduces opportunities for human social interaction and relationship building. Moreover, contrary to expectations that care robots will save labor and reduce health care expenditures, robots cost more money and require additional human labor to tend to the machines. As Wright shows, robots alone will not rescue Japan from its care crisis. The attempts to implement robot care instead point to the importance of looking beyond such techno-fixes to consider how to support rather than undermine the human times, spaces, and relationships necessary for sustainably cultivating good care. (https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768040/robots-wont-save-japan/)
650			_aOlder people-Japan _916253
650			_aRobotics-Social aspects _916254
650			_aHuman-robot interaction _916255
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