NDU · Theme 03
Medical Anthropology & AI in Healthcare
Clinical work is moral work. Introducing predictive systems into it redistributes authority, responsibility and blame in ways that rarely appear in evaluation studies.
Current questions
- Whose knowledge counts when clinical judgement is machine-mediated?
- How do patients experience being assessed by a system they cannot question?
- What happens to accountability when a recommendation has no author?
Where it is being worked out
Case studies
- Digital trust in healthcare decision-making
Qualitative interviewing on why an accurate health tool is still refused.
Reading & direction
Next direction
Ethnographic work with frontline health workers adopting decision-support tools.
Reading
- Arthur Kleinman — The Illness Narratives
- Paul Farmer — Pathologies of Power
- Deborah Lupton — Digital Health
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