Making Medical Progress

‘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‘Opening up a scenic view on the winding and diverging paths of ideas of progress in modern medicine, this engaging book highlights the contingencies, tensions, but also the agency that any conceptualisation of improvement entails, and helps to ask better questions about the past, present and future of medicine.’ Lara Keuck, Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine, Bielefeld University

Vanessa Rampton is an intellectual historian and senior researcher at Assisted Lab in the University of St Gallen’s Medical Humanities Chair.