Crisis in Western Medical Science

Modern Western medicine has never been so contested. From Vesalius' dissections to contemporary pharmaceutical scandals, via Illich, Szasz and Kuhn, Laurent Ozon delves into the Western biomedical paradigm, exposes the blind spots of pharmacovigilance and health agencies, and explores avenues for a medical paradigm shift that reconciles major therapeutic traditions, prevention, AI and popular and cultural reappropriation of health.