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Vanessa Rampton, "Making Medical Progress: History of a Contested Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Vanessa Rampton explains how the Enlightenment created ambitious ideas of medical progress without any actual medical results.
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A careful history of medical progress that treats ethics as part of the story.
Vanessa's conversation about Making Medical Progress treats a familiar phrase as a live historical question. It follows postwar medicine as progress starts to feel both real and contested, and it works best when it sits with the tension between open-heart surgery, better…
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A clear look at when medical progress became a moral question.
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