What is Medicine For? | Devan Stahl, PhD

About this episode

The episode explores the evolving role of medicine and technology in achieving health and wellness in society.

In recent years, Silicon Valley has imagined for us a new way of life – one where almost anyone can be a twenty or thirty-something-year-old with a supernatural glow, toned physique, understated intelligence, and a superabundance of vitality. This is not reality for most people, even for the twenty or thirty-something-year-olds, but medicine and technology originally intended to help people achieve baseline health are increasingly being leveraged to close the gap. This raises the question: wh...

People in this episode

Hosts: Henry Bair, Tyler Johnson

Guest: Devan Stahl

Topics covered

• medicine
• technology
• health
• society
• wellness

Keywords

• medicine
• technology
• health
• wellness
• Silicon Valley
• society
• vitality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Silicon Valley

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