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ArticleMedical humanities2025

Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design.

Tony Prescott, Julie M Robillard, Stuart Murray

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Article in Medical humanities, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tony PrescottComputer Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK t.j.prescott@sheffield.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4927-5390
Julie M RobillardDepartment of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of British Columbia and BC Children's and Women's Hospital and Health Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Stuart MurrayEnglish, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Participatory design places a strong emphasis on human agency, user perspectives and democratic ideals of inclusivity and empowerment, and is therefore often associated with humanist principles and values. In contrast, critical posthumanism questions key humanist assumptions about the centred and singular nature of the 'human condition'. Instead, posthumanism points to the evolving and diverse lived experiences of people and how these are transformed by (and are transforming of) culture, environment and technology. In this commentary, we explore how participatory design could benefit from a posthumanist perspective that more explicitly acknowledges the entangled and interconnected nature of our technologised lives.

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HumanismCultureEmpowermentHumansTechnologyCommunity-Based Participatory ResearchDigital TechnologyMedical humanitiesPhilosophy

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PMID39746715
PMCPMC11877099

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