Eco-Logics of Care: AI, Ethics, Health Justice, and the Climate Crisis in a Changing World

Abstract (English)

This research investigates care as “Eco-Logics of Care,” which examines how AI is being used in the healthcare sector in relation to care for the ecosystem. Taking up anthropological and ethical methods, the study analyzes how algorithm logic frames caring practices, politics, embodiment, and relationality. It analyzes AI within the context of algorithmic health innovation, not merely as technology but as a socio-technical actor reconfiguring health ethics, distribution, and justice relations within humans and ecological systems. This study asks questions about whose health is monitored with AI, who adapts to climate changes, and how resources are allocated, and, in a digitally transformed and ecologically crisis-structured world, care is prioritized and what constitutes care. This research tackles issues of health justice and climate ethics, drawing on medical anthropology, environmental humanities, and science and technology studies (STS). It aims to address gaps in the lives of those suffering the most from health inequities and the degradation of the environment and explore how algorithms can change the politics of invisibility. This is a call for an integrated care approach that mitigates technological advancement with ecological, social, and economic balance and fairness. This will help sociologists comprehend care as a moral and physical practice within a world that is constantly evolving.