Whether you believe it or not: the best of all times is nigh!
Personalised medicine, gene technology, artificial intelligence – the desired victory over illnesses, yes the improvement of human kind are on our doorstep, so Silicon Valley, the elite universities and research labs of the world tell us. In these modern cathedrals, new apostles declare the happy news, and we receive it gladly. But why? And what does this say about us and current times? Urban Wiesing shows that a great human need for healing exists, which in our time medicine alone appears to be able to satisfy. But what can we realistically expect from medicine as a science? An unflinching appeal to the basic virtues of medicine as science and an exciting examination of the present.
