24/02/2025
Meet Jean-Pierre Dupuy!
[Lecture in English]
Limits to professional care : thinking with and beside Ivan Illich
“I invite all to shift their gaze, their thoughts, from worrying about health care to cultivating the art of living. And, today, with equal importance, the art of suffering, the art of dying.”
This shocking invitation was proffered by Ivan Illich in his 1975 book, Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis. Illich, this great critic of industrial societies and their key institutions, like schools, medicine, and transportation, had an incredible influence on our ways of thinking in the 1970s and the 1980s, to the point that he is often taken to be one of the precursors of political ecology. Today, many believe that his analyses are more appropriate than ever. We’ll put this judgment to the test of the current crises of our health care systems.
Jean-Pierre Dupuy is Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Philosophy at the Ecole polytechnique Paris and Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University, with a courtesy position in Political Science. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology, an honorary member of the Conseil Général des Mines, and was the first chair of the Ethics Committee of the French High Authority on Nuclear Safety and Security. Dupuy has authored several works, including The Mechanization of the Mind (2000), The Mark of the Sacred (2013), and How to Think About Catastrophe (2023), among others.
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