Progress, what's it good for? Critiquing progress in science and medicine at the end of series one Body Politics: where history, medicine and society collide
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In this last episode of the first series of Body Politics, we reflect back on the history that we have come by over the past few months. One of the regular themes thrown up by the series' episodes is what we mean by 'progress' in science and medicine, and how a critical history of science and medicine can have deep, philosophical significance for our present and future senses of how society should be organised. In conversation with Dr Jacob Moses of Johns Hopkins University, we reflect o...
In this last episode of the first series of Body Politics, we reflect back on the history that we have come by over the past few months. One of the regular themes thrown up by the series' episodes is what we mean by 'progress' in science and medicine, and how a critical history of science and medicine can have deep, philosophical significance for our present and future senses of how society should be organised. In conversation with Dr Jacob Moses of Johns Hopkins University, we reflect o...
38 min