Description: "From ancient Greece to debates on AI, answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested. Vanessa Rampton sheds light on the idea and politics of medical progress, who it currently benefits, and how it can be made more meaningful in future. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Vanessa Rampton is an intellectual historian and senior researcher at Assisted Lab in the University of St Gallen's Medical Humanities Chair.
Review Quotes: 'Brilliantly combining philosophical acuity and medical and historical perspectives, Rampton reveals the intricacies of medical progress and the meaning of this term. Her multidimensional approach develops essential conceptual tools that philosophers, historians, practitioners and, in fact, everyone affected by medical progress need for understanding our practices surrounding medicine and health.' Nadja El Kassar, Professor of Philosophy, University of Lucerne