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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2025

Vanessa Rampton
Vanessa Rampton
Affiliation:
University of St Gallen

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Making Medical Progress
History of a Contested Idea
 , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. Acknowledgments

  2. Introduction

    1. I.1Spotlight on Medical Progress

    2. I.2Scope and Aims

    3. I.3Dimensions of Personhood and Patienthood

    4. I.4Health and Values

    5. I.5Problematizing Medical Progress

    6. I.6Historiography of Progress

    7. I.7Historiography of Medicine and Progress

    8. I.8Medical Progress: A Multidimensional View

  3. 1History: Medical Progress in Context

    1. 1.1Notions of Selfhood and Progress in Antiquity

    2. 1.2Health in Christianity and the Middle Ages

    3. 1.3Progress and the Person in the Renaissance

    4. 1.4Medical Progress, Self, and Enlightenment

    5. 1.5Nineteenth Century: Medical Progress and Civilization

    6. 1.6Early Twentieth-Century Visions of Progress

    7. 1.7Conclusion

  4. 2Medical Progress as Biomedical Knowledge Gains

    1. 2.1The Importance of (Biomedical) Scientific Knowledge after War

    2. 2.2Challenges to Scientific Knowledge Progress from Medicine and the Social Sciences

    3. 2.3Challenges to Scientific Knowledge Progress from the Philosophy of Science

    4. 2.4No Progress in Medicine: Questioning Cumulative, Progressive Knowledge

    5. 2.5Pluralism, Information, and Knowledge

    6. 2.6Defending Progress in Medicine

    7. 2.7Conclusion

  5. 3Medical Progress as Becoming Free

    1. 3.1From Technical Knowledge Gains to “Moral Knowing”

    2. 3.2The New Bioethics: Progress as Patient Autonomy

    3. 3.3Challenges to Negative Freedom

    4. 3.4Taking Autonomy Seriously: Freedom versus (Technological) Progress

    5. 3.5Reclaiming Progress as Freedom

    6. 3.6Conclusion

  6. 4“Health for All”: Medical Progress as Justice

    1. 4.1Progress as Medical Access: Origins

    2. 4.2Progress on Health Equity I: Primary Care and “Health for All”

    3. 4.3Progress on Health Equity II: Upstream Determinants of Health

    4. 4.4Progress, the Social Determinants of Health, and Health Justice

    5. 4.5Progress as Justice: Critiques

    6. 4.6Medical Progress and COVID-19

    7. 4.7Conclusion

  7. Epilogue: Medical Progress as Achieving Sustainability

  8. Bibliography

  9. Index

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