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Making Medical Progress

By Vanessa Rampton

Making Medical Progress

By Vanessa Rampton

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Answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested, and any one response is always bound up with contextual ideas of personhood, society, and health. However, the widely held enthusiasm for medical progress escapes more general critiques of progress as a conceptual category. From the intersection of intellectual history, philosophy, and the medical humanities, Vanessa Rampton sheds light on the politics of medical progress and how they have downplayed the tensions between individual and social goods. She examines how a shared consensus about its value gives medical progress vast political and economic capital, revealing who benefits, who is left out, and who is harmed by this narrative. From ancient Greece to artificial intelligence, exploring the origins and ethics of different visions of progress offers valuable insight into how we can make them more meaningful in future. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Product details
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2025-10-31
Publication Date:
2025-10-20
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009602659
ISBN13:
9781009602655
Weight:
515 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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