Making medical progress : history of a contested idea / Vanessa Rampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rampton, Vanessa, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics--History.

Medical ethics.

Medicine--Research--History.

Medicine.

Medicine--Philosophy--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

History

Medical progress as biomedical knowledge gains

Medical progress as becoming free

“Health for all”

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version : Rampton, Vanessa, Making medical progress,

ISBN:

9781009602648

1009602640

9781009602655

1009602659

OCLC:

1539300134

Publisher Number:

CIPO000281531

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license